Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Multi-language documentation

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Michael Westbay wrote:

> You might want to look at SmartDoc:
> 
>   http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~dp8t-asm/java/tools/SmartDoc/
> 
> You can create blocks with different lang="..." attributes so that the
> original source may be bilingual, with monolingual output.  When I first
> started with DocBook, I thought that I could do that, but soon found that it
> isn't set up to filter out only the lang="..." attributes of a specified
> language.

You can use profiling stylesheet (tools/profile/profile.xsl) from XSL
distribution to do it. Just run it with parameters "attr=lang" and
"lang=xx", where xx is language you want to extract. (Many thanks to
Mike Smith who brings idea making profiling stylesheet customizable this
way.;)

However storing multiple translations in one document is not good idea
IMHO. 

			Jirka

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