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We will soon be moving to single sourcing, and I have been searching and searching for guidelines, discussion groups, and advice, to little avail. Is this a good forum for this discussion, or can anyone suggest others? 

From each single source, we will need to produce a user guide and training manual as PDF, plus online help. We will localize the material into numerous languages. I have proposed using Frame with conditional text, then WebWorks to produce the online help. But my boss is under a lot of pressure from his boss to "go xml." I keep asking why? In what way could this possibly make our lives easier? 

Another issue is in what format to hand off the single source "master" doc for localization. In the past we have provided Frame docs, but this has proved extremely expensive: the vendor converts the docs to text, localizes, converts back to Frame, and charges us a lot of money to fix page breaks and formatting. What do other people hand off to vendors for localizing? 

Thanks! 
Karen