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- From: "Laurent Bossavit" <laurent@mmania.com>
- To: "Xml-Dev" <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:22:19 +0200
Didier wrote :
> I am proposing a group effort to create a multi-lingual document so that we
> can concretely see what is a multi-lingual document instead of talking about
> the subject in the abstract.
Need help with French ? I'll volunteer...
> what is required for the experiment:
> a) a translation of the DTD into other languages
> b) a translation of the content into other languages
Hmmm... Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but what is the use
of translating the DTD ? Won't you end up with documents that need to
be processed by an XML application specific to each language ? If we
were talking about Schemas, it would make more sense to me - IIRC
Schema validation has provisions for making equivalence between
element names, so that a translated element name could properly map
to its translations.
Also, your sample document doesn't provide much "content" to
translate. Given the (implied) context, I'm assuming that the title
should not be translated, unless of course the item concerns a
translated version of the work. I've taken the liberty of adding a
"description" element to work on.
>From what I gather of Appendix B to the XML 1.0 spec, french
"accents" are not allowed in element names - though I'm not quite
sure... For safety's sake I didn't use any, although I find the
restriction irritating (a bad start already !). A quick review of the
XML Schema TR leads me to believe diacritics *can* be used in element
names.
The most important question, though, is what kind of manipulations
you want to be able to perform on such "multi-lingual documents" ?
Depending on the task - retrieving the version appropriate to readers
of different origins, assisting with machine translation, or
providing a "corpus" of translations for literary or academic
purposes, to name but a few examples - might require very different
structures and/or solutions.
Meanwhile, please accept this contribution -
<!DOCTYPE xmldev-essai [
<!ELEMENT xmldev-essai(objet)+ >
<!ELEMENT objet (titre, auteur, editeur, prix, description) >
<!ATTLIST objet xml:lang CDATA #REQUIRED >
<!ELEMENT titre (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT auteur (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT editeur (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT prix (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT description (#PCDATA) >
<!ATTLIST prix devise CDATA #REQUIRED>
]>
<xmldev-essai>
<objet xml:lang="français">
<titre>STL Tutorial</titre>
<auteur>David Musser</auteur>
<editeur>Addison Wesley</editeur>
<prix devise="can">54.50</prix>
<description>Introduction à la bibliothèque d'objets standard
STL</description>
</objet>
</xmldev-essai>
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Laurent Bossavit - Ingénieur R&D
>>> laurent@mmania.com <<<
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