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RE: Xml internationalization design

• To: "'tom tom'" <tomxsllist@h...>,<darkman_spam@y...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Xml internationalization design
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 14:24:23 +0100
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> 
> 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's always a bit of an arbitrary choice whether to put a wrapper element
around a repeating singleton element. In this case I don't think I would -
because the operation you want to perform on the set of titles is to select
one of them, rather than to aggregate them as a group; and because I don't
want to use a wrapper element in the common case where there's only one
language, as in your "description" element.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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