The OASIS DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) standard promotes semantically tagged XML topics that are combined using DITA map functionality to produce integrated deliverables of technical content to end users. Individual XML topics can be translated once and used in multiple deliverables. Individual XML topics can be translated early in the product-development life cycle to facilitate simultaneous shipping of product in multiple languages.

Bring together two powerful OASIS XML standards (DITA and XLIFF), and you get a process that reduces the costs and risks associated with translating topic-oriented, XML-based content. In this business-focused Web session, a panel of XLIFF/DITA/Translation experts attempt to answer key questions:

* What is the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard and what does it have to do with the localization and translation of content?