A translatable website has to be easy to recreate in several languages and, once it's live, easy to maintain in all those languages. This can be achieved using structured authoring with Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and the Open Toolkit, which translators and clients can both benefit from. Having dabbled with DITA and the Open Toolkit for technical documentation, I was curious to see how the approach of separating styling and information could be used to create a translatable, text-rich website. The tools are open source, and this meant I could experiment. The result of my curiosity is www.dita2web.be, a ... To read this entire article you must be a MultiLingual subscriber. For immediate access to the current issue, subscribe to the digital version. Already a subscriber?

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