Re: [docbook-apps] multi-lingual DocBook Website web-sites

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Jochen Hayek wrote:

> So the multi-lingual refers to a couple of aspects, even not too seriously connected issues:
> 
> 1.) With the currenty stylesheets to create HTML from DocBook Website documents:
> would it be possible to extract&convert parts of the documents labeled with the languages of respective parts of these documents
> *into* *separate* *HTML* *documents*

This is possible using profiling feature of stylesheets. For web-site
you have to use two-pass approach:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Profiling.html

Although I don't think that having both language versions in single file
is a good approach for localization. It is better to have language
versions in a separate files and use translation software with
translation memory to maintain localizations. Try googling, this was
dicussed plenty of times in a past.

> and 2.) would it be possible to "publically" link these different HTML files to each other
> using "e.g." the flags of the countries, where these languages are spoken most.

You can customize XSLT stylesheets to emit additional links to other
languges.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------
  Jirka Kosek     e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz     http://www.kosek.cz
------------------------------------------------------------------
  Profesionální školení a poradenství v oblasti technologií XML.
       Podrobný přehled školení http://xmlguru.cz/skoleni/
------------------------------------------------------------------
                   Nejbližší termíny školení
      ** Úvod do XML 18.8. ** Úvod do XML schémat 16.9. **
     ** Úvod do XSLT 23.9. ** XML pro vývojáře 5.-7.10. **
      ** XML schémata 12.-14.10. ** DocBook 19.-21.10. **
         ** XSLT 8.-11.4. ** Office Open XML 13.12. **
------------------------------------------------------------------
  http://docbook.cz    Stránky o dokumentačním formátu DocBook
  http://xmlguru.cz    Blog mostly about XML for English readers
------------------------------------------------------------------

OpenPGP digital signature