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# Qt Phrase Book (.qph)

Added in version 1.2.

Qt Linguist allows a translator to collect common phrases into a phrase book. This plays a role of glossary lookup as opposed to translation memory.

## Conformance

There is no formal definition of the format, although it follows a simple structure

    <!DOCTYPE QPH><QPH>
      <phrase>
        <source>Source</source>
        <target>Target</target>
        <definition>Optional definition</definition>
      </phrase>
    </QPH>

## Missing features

There are no missing features in our support in the toolkit. The only slight difference are:

- We don’t focus on adding and removing items, just updating and reading

- Comments are not properly escaped on reading, they might be on writing

- An XML header is output on writing while it seems that no files in the wild contain an XML header.

- The `<definition>` is aimed at users, the toolkits addnote feature focuses on programmer, translators, etc comments while there is really only one source of comments in a .qph. This causes duplication on the offline editor.