A subfield is attached to another field (regardless of level), usually to specify a source. They are mostly intended for TBX 3 and sdltb or xdt files, but can also be used with spreadsheets. In any other format, they won't work properly.
Subfields of subfields may work in tbx and sdltb, but support is shaky at best.

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