Welcome to opentag.com, This site is dedicated to the tools and technologies used in the localization of software, on-line help and documentation. Its aim is to provide you with useful information and tools that could help you streamline your localization processes.

Feb-13-2008: The Best Practices for XML Internationalization has been published as a W3C Working Group Note. This document provides a set of guidelines for developing XML documents and schemas that are internationalized properly. See more...
The XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) version 1.2 has become an official OASIS Standard on Feb-01-2008. See the OASIS XLIFF TC Web pages for more information.
The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) v1.0 has been published as a W3C Recommendation on Apr-04-2007. See the W3C Press Release. The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) is a set of attributes and elements designed to help the internationalization and localization of XML material.
The Okapi Framework, an open-source framework for localization tools, has released various new material including a .NET implementation of components and applications. The ENLASO's tools (Rainbow, Olifant, etc.) are now being developed as open source software at SourceForge.net. Version 5 of Rainbow is available here...
Interested in using full-text search features in XML? Then you may want to have a look at the W3C draft on XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text. See more...
The project XLIFFRoundTrip, created by Bryan Schnabel and hosted by SourceForge (an open source repository) is an interesting XSL application. It provides a template to map any XML documents to XLIFF and another one to convert back the XLIFF document to its original document type. See more...
Read the excellent pages on "What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup" by Richard Ishida, an excellent primer on how to use the Unicode bi-directional algorithm with markup. See more...
Interested in applying best internationalization practices when developing your Web site? Then, follow the work of the W3C i18n GEO group on "Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization 1.0". See more...