What are the guidelines to author XML documents that will be easier to localize?
The W3C ITS Working Group will produce such guidelines. Meanwhile you can start with the following: • Always keep encoding in mind. Use the encoding declaration. • Use entity references wisely. Re-use of the same text in different place does not work the same way for all languages. Using entity references may also cause some problem when leveraging from translation memories (e.g. the leveraged segment contains an entity reference not declared in the new document). • Never use infinite naming schemes. (e.g.
