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Re: RDFa, multiple languages, multiple documents, one subject

From: Sergey Chernyshev <rdfa.info@antispam.sergeychernyshev.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:21:42 -0400
Message-ID: <9984a7a70809180721g37207d82r2e3660acd1ecd23f@mail.gmail.com>
To: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
Great! I didn't know that. I wonder if RDFa clients are interpreting it
appropriately?

BTW, it's an example when duplication of code is necessary - same links need
to have have both rel="alternative" and rel="rdfs:seeAlso".

            Sergey


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Steven Pemberton
<steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>wrote:

> Helly Sergey,
>
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:46:22 +0200, Sergey Chernyshev <rdfa.info@
> antispam.sergeychernyshev.com> wrote:
>
>  One of the goals of the project is to make it easy to create profiles with
>> lables and stuff in multiple languages, another goal is to have RDFa
>> support
>> for it. I approached this by creating pages for each language (substituted
>> with values in default language if language-specific labels are not
>> defined)
>> and interlinked them with rdfs:seeAlso links so english page, for example
>> has
>>
>>  <a rel="rdfs:seeAlso" href="?lang=ru">ru</a>
>>
>> if russian version also exists.
>>
>
> Actually HTML and XHTML already have a notation for this:
>
>        <a rel="alternative" href="?lang=ru" hreflang="ru">ru</a>
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-links
>
> So while your version may well be OK, that is the official way to do it.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Steven Pemberton
>



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Sergey Chernyshev
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