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Subject: Re: [dita-comment] dita-translation comment


Title: Re: [dita-comment] dita-translation comment
We have a presentation on this process scheduled for the DITA Europe conference in November in Munich. Bryan Schnabel, chair of the OASIS XLIFF committee, and Rodolfo Raya, MaxPrograms, will bring us up to date on the process. They presented this through an OASIS webinar earlier in the year. A recording of the webinar is available on dita.xml.org

I hope that Bryce’s colleague might be able to attend DITA Europe and talk with Bryan and Rodolfo about what she would like to do.

JoAnn Hackos
Joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com


On 9/25/09 7:46 PM, "Gregg Reynolds" <dev@mobileink.com> wrote:


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Bryce L Nordgren <bnordgren@fs.fed.us> wrote:
I was on the verge of recommending DITA to a colleague who is working on a
Russian-English Fire Science Dictionary.  However, after digging a little
deeper, I am a bit confused as to how one might even use the glossentry
element to provide a kind of structured translation framework.

We can start simply: with only a single <glossterm> element allowed in a
<glossentry>, how does one specify the "preferred term" in two or more
languages?  If <glossentry> means "one sense of the term", should it

Have you investigated TMX <http://www.lisa.org/Translation-Memory-e.34.0.html> , XLIFF <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xliff> , etc.?  I would think you could use such tools to produce a translation of DITA topics, so you end up with two docs, one Russian and one English, and then use a topic map to combine them as appropriate.  With judicious use of xml:id or other devices you could easily correlate passages.

-gregg



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