All,
I hope everyone is enjoying the month of August.
Ektron’s content management system (CMS400) has the
ability to generate XLIFF documents of the content to be translated. Some of our
customers have tried to open the XLIFF documents in an XLIFF editor out of
curiosity. They wish to verify that the XLIFF document is OK before sending it
out to a translator. We’ve run into a couple of issues.
First, some of our customers have stated that their translation
provider is unfamiliar with XLIFF.
Second, some of the XLIFF tools our customers have tried
fail to open the XLIFF documents. I believe they have searched the web for
XLIFF tools and downloaded them for trial. One such tool is Sun’s Translation
Editor.
Third, Ektron is producing XLIFF 1.1, which understandably
is causing problems with older XLIFF tools. However, even when converting to
XLIFF 1.0 some of the tools fail. Trados and Heartsome are two that are OK with
XLIFF 1.0. Ektron can produce XLIFF 1.0 easy enough, so this is the least of
the problems.
Questions:
1. Does anyone know of translation providers that can accept
XLIFF documents (either 1.0 or 1.1) for translation and interpret them as XLIFF
and not some generic XML document?
2. Which tools accepts XLIFF documents, either version 1.0
or 1.1? I know there are some, but would like to hear opinions and which are
suitable for someone to download and try out even though they are not a
professional translator.
3. Any tools that support XLIFF 1.1 yet? I would like to do
some compatibility checking with the XLIFF documents Ektron’s CMS
produces.
Thank you very much for your consideration. I especially
look forward to hearing from the tool developers on the committee.
Regards,
Doug Domeny
Ektron, Inc.
+1 603 594-0249 x212
http://www.ektron.com