Re: Database > Formatted HTML files?

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com>]

"Hart, Rowena" wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> A few people have asked for clarification about what I meant in my original
> post. I'm talking about translating English into French, Spanish, etc.
> 
> The average response to my question seems to be that I should avoid putting
> my text into a database, because translators will work in whatever file
> format I give them. For example, I could deliver the HTML files from my web
> help project to the translator, who would simply return the HTML files with
> all of the visible English translated into the target language. They would
> leave the HTML tags and other format strings alone. Is this correct, or have
> I misunderstood people's responses?
> 
> Of course, I would prefer to simply author my online help text in RoboHelp
> and forget about databases altogether. Let me know if I've got the right
> idea.

Have you tired putting the text modules into a simple XML database? This
could be easily done. 


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