You have a list of items that you would like to group together into an XML string array. Let's take a drop-down menu with language options as an example:
Languages:
English
Chinese
French
Spanish
Ideally you would want to group them into a string array that looks like this:
<string-array name="languages_array">
<item>English</item>
<item>Chinese</item>
<item>French</item>
<item>Spanish</item>
</string-array>
When uploading onto our platform, we recommend putting each array item into a separate string, adding the translatable="false" attribute to the string array, then referencing each item:
<string name="english_language">English</string>
<string name="chinese_language">Chinese</string>
<string name="french_language">French</string>
<string name="spanish_language">Spanish</string>
<string-array name="languages_array" translatable="false">
<item>@string/english_language</item>
<item>@string/chinese_language</item>
<item>@string/french_language</item>
<item>@string/spanish_language</item>
</string-array>
This way, due to the translatable="false" attribute, the string-array will be hidden on our platform, but can still exist in the strings.xml file. When you want to add an extra item to your array, it will not affect the other array items and will remove sequencing complications with array items.
This not only helps during localization. but is also a best practice for handling string arrays for Android.
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Sure, XML arrays can be formatted in various ways depending on the specific requirements and conventions being followed. Here's an example of how you might format an array of strings in XML using a simple structure:
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```xml
<data>
<strings>
<string>Value 1</string>
<string>Value 2</string>
<string>Value 3</string>
</strings>
</data>
```
In this example:
- `<data>` is the root element.
- `<strings>` is a container element for the array of strings.
- Each `<string>` element contains a single string value.
You can have as many `<string>` elements as needed, each representing an item in the array.
If you have additional metadata or attributes associated with each string, you can include them within the `<string>` element:
```xml
<data>
<strings>
<string id="1">Value 1</string>
<string id="2">Value 2</string>
<string id="3">Value 3</string>
</strings>
</data>
```
Here, the `id` attribute is added to each `<string>` element to provide additional information.
Remember, XML formatting can vary greatly depending on the specific requirements and conventions of the system or application you are working with. The key is to ensure consistency and clarity for both human readability and machine parsing.
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