Re: Know Anything about Madcap Flare?

["Lech Rzedzicki" <xchaotic -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Chris Vickery
<cvickery -at- arenasolutions -dot- com> wrote:
> Flare uses XML, so shouldn't any translation house be able to use it?

While in this case, you might not be far from truth, this is a very
wrong assumption.
XML is merely a markup language in which you can express a variety of
data models: DITA, Docbook, XHTML just to name a few popular in
authoring.
Any given tool supports a flavor of XML such as DITA, if it supports
generic XML, the support itself is equally generic, in case of MadCap
Products, there's even a dedicated app to support the needs of
translation and localization, called Lingo[1]

But that doesn't mean than any translation house supports any tools
you throw at them, most translators are outsourced, overworked and
underpaid and M$ Word is usually the top of their tool proficiency.


[1] http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/lingo/
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