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The Center for Information-Development Management

Maintaining consistency between a source document and its translated counterparts can be complex and troublesome. Innumerable challenges can arise with character sets, version control, text in graphics, tables, expansion of text, updates, and so on. Using XML for translation can help overcome some of these challenges. In this article, I explain how XML tools and standards can help remedy tricky...

The Center for Information-Development Management

Gert Kindergarten, marketing director at Hyperactive Software, has just returned from the KMWorld conference. He attended two sessions espousing the advantages of moving documents into a content-management system and using XML markup to enable reuse1 and repurposing2. He announces to his staff that the company needs to “get into” content management right away for all its marketing and customer ...

The Center for Information-Development Management

Recent widespread interest in the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) has accelerated adoption of this open, standards-based foundation for the creation of topic-oriented content. The DITA information architecture can help documentation groups to automate their workflow, achieve reuse of content, and deliver that content to multiple delivery channels. However, when used in concert wit...

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Defense Technical Information Center