Introduction

Lingobit Localizer support localization of XML files.

XML is the Extensible Markup Language. It is designed to improve the functionality of the Web by providing more flexible and adaptable information identification.

It is called extensible because it is not a fixed format like HTML (a single, predefined markup language). Instead, XML is actually a `metalanguage' —a language for describing other languages—which lets you design your own customized markup languages for limitless different types of documents. XML can do this because it's written in SGML , the international standard metalanguage for text markup systems (ISO 8879).

It removes two constraints which were holding back Web developments:

dependence on a single, inflexible document type ( HTML ) which was being much abused for tasks it was never designed for;

the complexity of full SGML , whose syntax allows many powerful but hard-to-program options.

XML allows the flexible development of user-defined document types. It provides a robust, non-proprietary, persistent, and verifiable file format for the storage and transmission of text and data both on and off the Web; and it removes the more complex options of SGML, making it easier to program for.

Lingobit Localizer helps internationalize XML files. You can place all your language-specific data in XML files and then translate them with Lingobit Localizer. It is the easiest and fastest method to translate XML files.