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Subject: RE: [dita-translation] Now may be the time to express (reinforce) XLIFF as a best practice for translating DITA
> -----Original Message----- > From: bryan.s.schnabel@tektronix.com > [mailto:bryan.s.schnabel@tektronix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 6:26 PM > To: dita-translation@lists.oasis-open.org > Cc: tony.jewtushenko@productinnovator.com > Subject: [dita-translation] Now may be the time to express (reinforce) > XLIFF as a best practice for translating DITA > > [call for interested folks to consider a new education push] > > Hello, > > It seems like a number of recent events have conspired to make me think > this is a great time for a concerted effort to remind people of that > they might be leaving money on the table if they neglect to take > advantage of XLIFF for translating DITA topics. > > Several incidents have reinforced this feeling for me. Here's a recent > event that I can share, that nicely expresses the point . . . > > I was recently at the excellent DITA Europe 2009 event, watching an > excellent presentation about a very impressive, large authoring group > who had recently migrated from unstructured Frame to DITA, and > implemented an impressive CMS. I was super excited as they showed one > success after another, and how they really put all the parts of DITA > and CMS to great use . . . right up until the end when they talked > about translation. They listed all the things you should do when > selecting an LSP. My heart sunk a little when they expressed that "you > need to pick a vendor that can really understand and process DITA - and > they must prove to you that they can manage hundreds or thousands of > topics at a time." I thought, wow, this is a perfect example of where > XLIFF can save the day (or at least save them money and time-to- > market). > > The really cool thing is that now, more than ever, DITA is not just an > interesting technology on the horizon. There are now honest-to-goodness > implementations up-and-running. There are real groups, saving real > cycles and money, with real use cases to examine. I think now is the > time to get the *smart* ones to embrace this best practice: use XLIFF > to translate DITA! > > I think there would be interest on the XLIFF TC side to renew this > effort. Who's for it on the DITA side? (I wonder if there's a provision > for sharing an SC between TCs?) Hi Bryan, As you can guess, I'm more than willing to work in something like that. Best, Rodolfo -- Rodolfo M. Raya <rmraya@maxprograms.com> Maxprograms http://www.maxprograms.com
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