a future use for XLIFF?

Interesting thing happened at the office today . . .

One of my colleagues approached me with a problem (I’ll paraphrase). “I need to send a file to somebody who wants to suggest editorial changes to a few of our web pages. Can we export our web pages to word processor file, spreadsheet, or some simple XML format?”

Since we use a Web CMS, and do not have static pages, there really was no easy way I could think of. Doing a view source, then saving to file, then opening with a word processor resulted in way too much clutter.

So just for the fun of it, I used our Drupal XLIFF module and exported a few XLIFF files, and sent them.

My colleague was delighted. “What a wonderful format! We can leave the source text intact, and enter our suggestions in the target field! Perfect!”

Could this be a future XLIFF 2.X module someday? XLIFF without the L?

xliff message