Lin Surasky wrote: > OpenOffice wasn't as buggy as Word. We could output the Frame content > directly to XML which the translation tool can deal with. However, can > we get it back into Frame cleanly?
Yes. This is what we do (but see caution at the end): In a structured Frame binary file, with an XML application, which round-trips successfully (ie you can save as XML and open the xml file through Frame + the apprpriate Structured Application with no changes or losses), export the file and translate. Then import the result. Easy. You might wish to add an attribute such as xml:lang to some or all of your elements. You can use this to enable language-specific spell-checking in Frame, and also as an identifier to tell other post-processors what they are dealing with. Caution 1: If you are using XML as a 'native' save format for Frame files that don't have a Structure Application (DTD, read-write rules, etc), you are on your own. It should just work, but we don't use that process. Caution 2: This may not work well for languages outside Frame's character sets, because the result may not render properly in Frame. I don't know enough (ie anything) about how Frame renders Japanese/Chinese from xml utf-8-encoded files to guess at what happens, and I'm sure that other writing systems (Arabic, for example) are not supported. best -- Mark Barratt Text Matters Information design: we help explain things using language | design | systems | process improvement ______________________________________________________ phone +44 (0)118 986 8313 email markb at textmatters.com skype mark_barratt web http://www.textmatters.com
