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multilanguage Website
- From: Oleg Tkachenko <olegt at multiconn dot com>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 11:47:59 +0200
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: multilanguage Website
- Organization: Multiconn International
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 ?
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Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International, Israel