Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Multi-language documentation

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Yann Dirson <ydirson@alcove.fr> was heard to say:
| > isn't set up to filter out only the lang="..." attributes of a specified 
| > language.
| 
| DocBook's "lang" attribute does not have this meaning of alternative
| text.  It's here to allow you to quote things in foreign languages I
| think.

The lang attribute identifies the language of the text contained in the
element on which it appears. If you have more the one language in a
single document, it can be used for either purpose.

I would use <foreignphrase> to identify a small piece of multi-lingual
text that was supposed to be quoted in a document.

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                                          norm

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