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At 05:27 PM 19/01/01 +0000, 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. I don't think there's a problem. In RDDL, a related resource has machine-readable labels (in xl:role= and xl:arcrole=) and then the <rddl:resource> element contains a human-readable description. Since this is XHTML, which includes the xml:lang= attribute, the machinery is there to provide multiple human-readable descriptions. One earlier draft of RDDL I believe contained non-normative language encouraging the use of multilingual descriptions inside rddl:resource; this is probably a good idea. Now there's another issue, which is you could have two different human-readable related resources which differ only in the human language they're presented in. But I don't think it's cost-effective to try to solve that in RDDL. -Tim
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