About
This website is a sandbox to show how the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and the Open Toolkit can be used to create multilingual websites. DITA is an OASIS standard.
The authors of this website are linguists and translators who are interested in keeping text-rich websites translatable and easy to update. Authoring a website using modular DITA XML topics means you can write and translate the content, and forget about the presentation which is dealt with in the publishing stage. This opens new avenues for increased productivity in the translation and publishing of text-rich websites.
To illustrate the concept, it was necessary to create some content according to the DITA XML structure. Each top level link in the menu takes you to a subject with content written in DITA XML. The whole website has been generated using the Open Toolkit.
Clicking the language codes takes you to the same information in the respective languages. The source language is English and the Dutch version is a human translation using computer-aided translation tools. The Chinese and Spanish versions have been machine-translated and published here to give a general idea.
The content of this website is updated on a regular basis. Visit dita.xml.org and the OASIS websites for information about the DITA standard.
- About the makers
www.dita2web.be is a small-scale project to show how the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and the Open Toolkit can be used to create translatable websites. ... more - Web Output of DITA Elements
This topic shows how some of the DITA elements look in the xhtml output. Some styling is default but additional CSS styling can create attractive effects. ... more - Technical data
Check out this topic if you want to learn about the tools and processes used to create this website. ... more
