Re: DAVENPORT: Maintaing documents for multiple languages

["eduardo.gutentag" <Eduardo.Gutentag@eng.sun.com>]

Norm Walsh wrote:

[...]

> And here we see a good example of the one thing you can't do (easily)
> with attributes:
> 
> <article>
>  <title>...</title>
>  <subtitle lang="fr">
>  Guide d'utilisation et de configuration des produits HP sous Linux
>  </subtitle>
>  <subtitle lang="en">
>  Guide d'utilisation et de configuration des produits HP sous Linux
>  </subtitle>
> 
> You can't have two subtitles, so this won't validate. Sigh. Damned if you
> do, damned if you don't.
> 

Right, but you can certainly do:

<article>
<title><phrase lang="fr">Something or other in French</phrase>
<phrase lang="en">Something or other in English</phrase>
</title>
...
</article>

[...]
> 
>                                         Cheers,
>                                           norm
> 
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