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   Re: [xml-dev] Xml internationalization design

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Well http://www.w3.org/International/ has some various specs, working
drafts, and papers pertinent to the issue.

Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen
On 5/8/06, Florent Georges <darkman_spam@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> tom tom wrote:
>
> > I'm currently designing the XML to be used within an multi
> > language application.
>
> > I would like to know if there is any official
> > recommendation about how to nest an element that offers
> > multi-language values. This is how I would do this
> > traditionally:
>
> > <root>
> > <titles>
> > <title xml:lang="en"/>
> > <title xml:lang="fr"/>
> > </titles>
> > <body>body text</body>
> > </root>
>
> > And this is an alternative:
>
> > <root>
> > <title xml:lang="en"/>
> > <title xml:lang="fr"/>
> > <body>body text</body>
> > </root>
>
>  I guess that depends on several factors.  Here, I have
> something more like this:
>
>    <root>
>      <title i18n="main.title"/>
>      <body>body text</body>
>    </root>
>
> with somewhere else:
>
>    <i18n>
>      <l10n xml:lang="EN">
>        <entry name="main.title">Something</entry>
>        ...
>      </l10n>
>      <l10n xml:lang="FR">
>        <entry name="main.title">Quelque chose</entry>
>        ...
>      </l10n>
>    </i18n>
>
>  I think I described this on the XSL List at Mulberry Tech. a few
> months ago, if you're interested.
>
>  Regards,
>
> --drkm
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