On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:31:25 +0100
Mathieu Malaterre <> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for help/suggestion on the following issue: what is the
> best practice for writing a multilanguage docbook document ?
> docbook support the lang attribute in all elements, so I could use
> the profile mechanism to select generation of a target language based
> on that (*).
> However looking at the implementation in publican (**), they have
> preferred the 'pot' mechanism.
>
> Any comments/feedback on that ?
If you're publishing for Fedora then I guess use publican (far more than
simple docbook from a quick skim of the guidebook?)
If you want broader use, then lang (xml:lang) and process the docbook
using your own customization.
HTH
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