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The maker offers it as a way to translate such files without installing an additional tool. 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The prose no longer says the file is opened in the browser, which the word \"uploading\" does not support, no longer treats XLIFF 1.2 as what the tool accepts (the page states the version of the ABAP Cloud content it is mainly used for), and attributes \"without installing an additional tool\" to the maker. when_not_to_use was \"One file per session, translated by hand, field by field\", none of which the page states."}],"drafted_with_ai":true},"effective_normative_relations":[],"readings":{"liveness":[{"label":"Maintenance","tier":"unknown","evidence":"no release data"},{"label":"Continuity","tier":"unknown","evidence":"no contributor data"},{"label":"Repository","tier":"unknown","evidence":"no repository data"}],"compatibility":[{"label":"Declared for","tier":"fair","evidence":"nothing declared"},{"label":"Survived majors","tier":"unknown","evidence":"not read on ABAP: its lines run side by side"},{"label":"Maintainer's CI","tier":"unknown","evidence":"no repository data"}],"practice":[{"label":"Tests","tier":"unknown","evidence":"not crawled"},{"label":"Docs","tier":"unknown","evidence":"not crawled"},{"label":"Changelog","tier":"unknown","evidence":"not crawled"}],"reach":[{"value":null,"unit":"installs/week"},{"value":null,"unit":"watching"}]},"signals":{"crawled_at":"2026-10-25","npm":"not published under this name"},"edges":{"maintainers":[],"contributors":[],"explained_by":[],"alternative_to_this":[],"needed_by":[],"available_via":[],"parts":[],"add_ons":[],"answered_through_parts":[]}}