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RE: Xml internationalization design

• To: mike@s..., darkman_spam@y..., xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Xml internationalization design
• From: "tom tom" <tomxsllist@h...>
• Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 14:38:50 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <017d01c672a2$b9155810$6401a8c0@turtle>

The reason I normally would is that it makes it extensible. For example 
adding metadata which applied to all the titles would be difficult to do 
with repeated singleton elements.

>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.

We may sometimes wish to display both of them on one page.

However I agree in that we don't want to use a wrapper in the common case 
where there is only one language. So in the absence of some official 
internationalization recommendation this is what I'll do!

thanks

Tom


>From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
>To: "'tom tom'" 
><tomxsllist@h...>,<darkman_spam@y...>,<xml-dev@l...>
>Subject: RE:  Xml internationalization design
>Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 14:24:23 +0100
>
> >
> > 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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