Re: [docbook-apps] I18N

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Dave,
I guess I need some clarification of your terminology here.  When you say "odd words", 
I presume that means the text is mixed language text, with foreign words mixed with 
English text, rather than foreign content isolated in elements?  And when you say 
"boilerplate", are you referring to the generated text specified in the stylesheet 
files common/*.xml, which is used for generating "Chapter" labels and such?  I usually 
think of boilerplate as pre-written reusable snippets of content that are specific to 
a project.

With mixed text of odd words, I'm not sure how useful it is to separate out the 
content into separate files.  Certainly marking content with <phrase lang="xx"> might 
be helpful, depending on what you need to do with it.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


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From: "Dave Pawson" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
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Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 4:47 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] I18N


>
> I'm reading a text which is very localized. It's odd words, rather than
> boilerplate which I believe is the basis for docbook I18N.
>
> Anyone any references please for best practice in this area?
> I like the docbook principles, to keep all 'foreign' text out of the
> main body and reference it [via some means], for XSLT processing
> using the xml:lang and  a 'set' of lang files.
>
> Could the docbook ideas be used for this?
>
> TIA
>
>
> regards
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