Re: Question: multilingual documents

On 07/06/2002 11:04:17 Aleksei Guzev wrote:
> Hello!
>
> This seems much better to me:
>
>   <item>
>     <catid>C-2353J</catid>
>     <description>
>         <xml:lang="en-US">This great summer tire
>     [...]</xml:lang>
>         <xml:lang="en-GB">This great summer tyre
>     [...]</xml:lang>
>         <xml:lang="fr">Cet excellent pneu d'été
>     [...]</xml:lang>
>     </description>
>   </item>

"xml:lang" is an attribute, not an element.

Misha


> But this should be declared by the schema.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Plech?míd Martin <Martin.Plechsmid@merlin.cz>
> To: <www-international@w3.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:38 PM
> Subject: Question: multilingual documents
>
>
>
> Hello.
>
> It is not clear to me how to create multilingual documents and not to
> violate the corresponding xml schema at the same.
>
> I'd like to write something like this:
>
>   <item>
>     <catid>C-2353J</catid>
>     <description xml:lang="en-US">This great summer tire
> [...]</description>
>     <description xml:lang="en-GB">This great summer tyre
> [...]</description>
>     <description xml:lang="fr">Cet excellent pneu d'été
> [...]</description>
>   </item>
>
> but if the xml schema allows at most one "description" element as a child of
> "item", this document wouldn't be valid with respect to the schema.
>
> Another issue is, that xml processors are not required to take care of the
> xml:lang attribute, hence the descriptions for irrelevant languages will not
> be filtered out. In the above document fraction, I would expect that xml
> processors should extract the description for the current language, and if
> there is none such, they should extract the first description in the
> sequence.
>
> Can anyone point me out of this vicious circle, and show me how to work with
> the xml:lang attribute correctly? Thanks,
>
> Martin.
>
>
>
>
>



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