Re: [docbook-apps] Multilanguage DocBook documents - best practices needed

[DaveP <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On 07/23/2012 07:58 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote:

> In my experience the following works pretty well:
>
> 1. Store your source language (usually English) as modular DocBook
> documents.
>
> 2. Prior sending document for translation assemble it into one large file.
>
> 3. Use agency which has very good translation software with translation
> memory
>
> 4. If source document is updated, make one large assembled file again --
> with translation memory only changed part of documents has to be
> translated again.
>
> 					Jirka


Which makes me think you have two separate documents, one for the 'master'
and another for the second language? Is that right Jirka?

I too thought it should be possible to have more than one language in
a single file.
The @id issue is only important for a built document, at which time
all except one language can be filtered out using XSLT?

regards




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