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   RE: [xml-dev] Xml internationalization design

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For us, I think your suggestion would lead to a very complex XML structure 
as we are likely to have this kind of thing happening in numerous places, 
hence would like to keep the XML inline.

If you want me to be more specific I can rephrase my question:

Given the following XML structure:

<metadata>
    <title xml:lang="en">eeeeeeee</title>
    <title xml:lang="pla">xxxxxx</title>
    <description>yyyyyyy</description>
</metadata>

Will wrapping the <title/> tags in a <titles/> tag provide benefits? It is 
how I would do something like this normally but I10n issues usually have an 
established way of doing things and I wanted to find out what this 
established way was.

I have already trawled through documents at www.w3.org/international and 
couldn't find anything.

Should I be asking the mulberry tech XSLT mailing list instead?

Tom



>From: Florent Georges <darkman_spam@yahoo.fr>
>To: tom tom <tomxsllist@hotmail.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Xml internationalization design
>Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 13:18:35 +0200 (CEST)
>
>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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