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Translating XML sources of WCAG 2.0

The WCAG 2.0 materials are maintained in XML documents. Translating the XML documents will allow us to:

This is described briefly in about the WCAG source documents. The DTD used is an extension of the XMLspec DTD. Various XSLT files direct the transformation into HTML (including single- and multiple-page versions), generation of How to Meet WCAG 2.0, and, in the future, other alternate versions of WCAG 2.0.

You can use any text editor or text-based XML editor to edit these documents. Note that the documents use the UTF-8 character encoding and must be opened in an editor that will process this correctly. It is necessary to preserve the code structure; this is supported by XML editing tools.

To facilitate editing, a CSS stylesheet is linked from the XML source. XML editors that provide an "authoring" or "authentic" view can use this to provide a quasi-WYSIWYG editing environment.

Only text inside elements needs to be translated. Values of attributes should not be translated, with the following exceptions:

File list

You can obtain the XML files from @@. Below is a brief explanation of the role of each file.

Tools

The following tools are known to support XML editing.