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multilanguage Website


Hello there!

I wonder what is the best approach to organize multilanguage website on 
Website 2.0 ?
I'd prefer to keep 1 multilanguage document for each page. My first 
guess was to double each element I want to be multilanguage, e.g.
<para lang="en">english text</para>
<para lang="ru">russian text</para>
but I'm afraid it's not robust solution because of possible DTD 
constraints on element occurences, so I'd better choose something like
<para>
	<some-element-with-lang-meaning-only lang="en">
		english text
	</some-element-with-lang-meaning-only>
</para>
Next I can filter language-specific elements by
<xsl:template match="*[@lang]">
	<xsl:if test="@lang = $lang">
		<xsl:apply-imports/>		
...
Is there sense at all and if so, which docbook element is better for 
encapsulating language-specific content ?

-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International, Israel


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