Re: How could RDDL be internationalised?

[Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>]

Tony Coates wrote:
>
>
> Just looking through the RDDL spec today, I wonder if internationalisation
> (i-eighteen-n) was considered.  That is to say, I would want to be able to
give
> a single resource multiple names in multiple languages.  Yes, I could add
each
> name as though it were a separate resource, but I'm sure no-one would
really
> want to suggest that as a serious option.  I could add RDF or a topic map
to the
> RDDL to define the language mappings, but that would bog it down too,
wouldn't
> it??
>
> Would people be agreeable to a modified RDDL spec that allows one resource
to
> have multiple descriptions (whether or not they are in different
languages?).  I
> might even tentatively suggest
>
> <!ELEMENT rddl:description (#PCDATA | %Flow.mix;)*>
> <!ATTLIST rddl:description
>   xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED
>   >

doesn't "div" do the trick here:

<rddl:resource
    xlink:role=".../foo"
    xlink:href="../bar"
>
    <div xml:lang="en">
        <p>This is the english description of the foo link</p>
    </div>
    <div xml:lang="de">....</div>
</rddl:resource>

similarly if you wish to name the description of a resource as opposed to
naming a resource, div also accepts an id attribute.

-Jonathan
.