Technical data
Check out this topic if you want to learn about the tools and processes used to create this website.
| Tool/Process | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| DITA DTD | version 1.1 | |
| Open Toolkit | version 1.3.1 | |
| Customisations | dita2xhtml | Extensive overrides of the various dita2xhtml XSL files |
| CSS | Override of default CSS and addition of new classes via the dita2xhtml XSL files | |
| no frames | navigation menu generated from ditamap is included on each html page to avoid the use of frames | |
| indication of current page | the current page is indicated in the navigation menu | |
| DITA XML Editors | JustSystems XMetal 5.5 (eval) | The editors were used to write and validate the topics, not to generate output; generating output from the editor is an option to be investigated |
| SynCro Soft Oxygen 10 (eval) | ||
| Notepad, Wordpad | ||
| Output generation | Ant and Open Toolkit | The output was generated using the Open Toolkit procedures, with Ant builds called from the Command Prompt (the black screen). |
| Source language | English (en) | The first language was written using one or a combination of XML editors |
| Target languages | Dutch (nl) | Translated from the English by a human translator using translation and terminology tools; validated by the translation tool |
| Spanish (es) | XML files were machine-translated with Google Translate and edited for validation (not for translation quality) in one of the XML editors | |
| Chinese (zh) | XML files were machine-translated with Google Translate and edited for validation (not for translation quality) in one of the XML editors | |
| Translation tools | SDL Trados Workbench and TagEditor | TagEditor supports the DITA DTD; only one Advance setting needed to be changed: change source xml:lang to target |
| Google Translate | for Spanish and Chinese gist translation (speed more important than linguistic quality) |
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