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Be aware that the format may change in future Qt releases.</p> <pre class="cpp"> <!-- ! ! Some notes to the DTD: ! ! The location element is set as optional since it was introduced first in Qt 4.2. ! The userdata element is set as optional since it was introduced first in Qt 4.4. ! --> <!-- ! Macro used in order to escape byte entities not allowed in an xml document ! for instance, only #x9, #xA and #xD are allowed characters below #x20. --> <!ENTITY % evilstring '(#PCDATA | byte)*' > <!ELEMENT byte EMPTY> <!-- value contains decimal (e.g. 1000) or hex (e.g. x3e8) unicode encoding of one char --> <!ATTLIST byte value CDATA #REQUIRED> <!-- ! This element wildcard is no valid DTD. No better solution available. ! extra elements may appear in TS and message elements. Each element may appear ! only once within each scope. The contents are preserved verbatim; any ! attributes are dropped. Currently recognized extra tags include: ! extra-po-msgid_plural, extra-po-old_msgid_plural ! extra-po-flags (comma-space separated list) ! extra-loc-layout_id ! extra-loc-feature ! extra-loc-blank --> <!ELEMENT extra-* %evilstring; > <!ELEMENT TS (defaultcodec?, extra-**, (context|message)+) > <!ATTLIST TS version CDATA #IMPLIED sourcelanguage CDATA #IMPLIED language CDATA #IMPLIED> <!-- The encoding to use in the QM file by default. Default is ISO-8859-1. --> <!ELEMENT defaultcodec (#PCDATA) > <!ELEMENT context (name, comment?, (context|message)+) > <!ATTLIST context encoding CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ELEMENT name %evilstring; > <!-- This is "disambiguation" in the (new) API, or "msgctxt" in gettext speak --> <!ELEMENT comment %evilstring; > <!-- Previous content of comment (result of merge) --> <!ELEMENT oldcomment %evilstring; > <!-- The real comment (added by developer/designer) --> <!ELEMENT extracomment %evilstring; > <!-- Comment added by translator --> <!ELEMENT translatorcomment %evilstring; > <!ELEMENT message (location*, source?, oldsource?, comment?, oldcomment?, extracomment?, translatorcomment?, translation?, userdata?, extra-**) > <!-- ! If utf8 is "true", the defaultcodec is overridden and the message is encoded ! in UTF-8 in the QM file. If it is "both", both source encodings are stored ! in the QM file. --> <!ATTLIST message id CDATA #IMPLIED utf8 (true|false|both) "false" numerus (yes|no) "no"> <!ELEMENT location EMPTY> <!-- ! If the line is omitted, the location specifies only a file. ! ! location supports relative specifications as well. Line numbers are ! relative (explicitly positive or negative) to the last reference to a ! given filename; each file starts with current line 0. If the filename ! is omitted, the "current" one is used. For the 1st location in a message, ! "current" is the filename used for the 1st location of the previous message. ! For subsequent locations, it is the filename used for the previous location. ! A single TS file has either all absolute or all relative locations. --> <!ATTLIST location filename CDATA #IMPLIED line CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ELEMENT source %evilstring;> <!-- Previous content of source (result of merge) --> <!ELEMENT oldsource %evilstring;> <!-- ! 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