Re: multilanguage support (of GNOME.org)

[Corey Burger <corey burger gmail com>]

On 9/24/05, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> <quote who="Murray Cumming">
>
> > So far, the only system I know of that can do this is DocBook with xml2po,
> > which we use for release notes. I'd be surprised if it's the only possible
> > way, but it's not my area of expertise.
>
> xml2po will work on any kind of xml -> think xhtml. It's doable, but a huge
> amount of work both in terms of integration and translation. We'd need a far
> more stringent workflow than we currently have. Other methods may prove more
> fruitful.
>
> - Jeff

Strict XHTML will work with xml2po. The Ubuntu doc team is busy
testing this with our Quick Tour, which incidentally happens to be a
marketing doc.

The doc can be seen here:
http://doc.ubuntu.com/gnome/quicktour/quicktour.html

Corey