Translation linking on docs.sun.com
Thursday Jul 24, 2008
This post follows on from Language Support On Docs.sun.com
Docs.sun.com hosts a vast amount of documentation in many languages.
However, the localized content has not always been easy to access. - The docs.sun site just doesn't make it easy to ascertain if a particular English book is available in your language.
Typically you have to re-navigate the product tree in your chosen language, just to see if the book has been translated. This at best, could be described as tedious.
So now, we've implemented translation linking [similar to what we did on the BigAdmin last year. Example].
That is, now on docs.sun, every book automatically cross-links to the translations of that book.
This should significantly improve the 'findability' of our translated content.
This effort took quite some time, since the data that mapped the translations to each other, was scattered in many places, in many formats.
Examples:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-1337?l=es
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0544?l=en
Note - we can only link from book to book; we cannot link from page to page. This is because of the way docs.sun.com dynamically serves content at runtime - with sometimes unpredictable URLs.
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