Re: [xml-dev] xml:lang how often used?

["bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com>]

by the way, be warned that I just checked mydictionary.org and its a
link spamming site.



On 10/19/07, bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It does seem an odd way of doing it - does anyone really have:
> >
> > <dictionary xml:lang="en">
> >  <term name="Computer">Computer</term>
> >  ...
> > </dictionary>
> > <dictionary xml:lang="fr">
> >  <term name="Computer">Ordinateur</term>
> >  ...
> > </dictionary>
> > <dictionary xml:lang="de">
>
>
> I think it seems like a quick hacky way of doing it. Like, oh we
> should have a dictionary of terms.
> > ...where all of the various languages are included in r the one XML file?
> Sure, Not well thought out dictionaries, but for just small
> dictionaries of values for a small project I bet there's a lot.
>
> > Wouldn't it be a better solution to do it the Java i18n way eg:
> >
> > <dictionary>
> >   <term name="Computer"><i18n id="Computer"/></term>
> >
> > and then a language file for each locale:
> >
> > xml_en_UK:
> >   <val id="Computer">Computer</val>
> >
> > xml_fr_FR:
> >   <val id="Computer">Ordinateur</val>
> >
>
> I think that is not a preferable way because it is still using one
> language as the default, the english one is redundantly maintained
> across all files. Becomes also problematic if a word in some language
> should be used that does not have a synonym in English. If the data
> may become really big you need to do it on a network.
>
>  How about like this:
>
> > xml_en_UK:
> >   <val id="http://mydictionary.org/5345";>Computer</val>
> >
> > xml_fr_FR:
> >   <val id="http://mydictionary.org/5345";>Ordinateur</val>
>
> Then a request against
>
> http://mydictionary.org/5345?lang=en_uk
> returns something like a wordml rdf format for Computer (I say
> something like because I would probably want to do something else)
>
> And http://mydictionary.org/languages/english/computer
> should return  a redirect to
> http://mydictionary.org/5345?lang=en_uk
>
> and checking if a language was supported for a particular word
> http://mydictionary.org/5345?lang=ar_sa
> which might show that it was not supported or just do a redirect to
> http://mydictionary.org/5345?lang=ar
>
>
> Of course http replaced by whatever lookup scheme used in your system,
> but I would think something like that more maintainable.
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan Rasmussen
>