Re: multi language support

Alankar,

At 09:52 AM 5/25/00 +0200, Sydney wrote:
>To support multi-language, you can use something like
>that
>
><pagecontent>
><desc xml:lang="fr">Bonjour</desc>
><desc xml:lang="en">Hello</desc>
></pagecontent>
>
>When you use xslt, you specify the language as a
>parameter of your xsl file.
><xsl:stylesheet>
><xsl:param name="lang"/>

Just to follow on from Sydney's suggestion, you should use the lang()
function as a shortcut to test whether the language specified in your
document using the xml:lang attribute matches the language specified by the
$lang parameter.  This saves you from having to test for different
capitalisations or subcodes like 'en-GB' in the value of the xml:lang
attribute.  More importantly, it takes into account the fact that xml:lang
is an attribute that is inherited by child elements.  For example:

<xsl:template match="desc">
  <xsl:if test="lang($lang)">
    <xsl:copy-of select="." />
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

Cheers,

Jeni

Dr Jeni Tennison
Epistemics Ltd, Strelley Hall, Nottingham, NG8 6PE
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