Re: [docbook-apps] Language support in XSL-FO Stylesheets

[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

Frank, is your solution meeting all your needs (with the corrections
you've made?)

If so, perhaps put in a change request to docbook?

regards

On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 15:07, Frank Steimke
<f-steimke@berger-und-steimke.de> wrote:
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> Dear List Members,
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> i had already sent this to the docbook List, but probably this list docbook-apps fits better.
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> I am using DocBook for a bi-lingual book. Most of the content is written in english, but parts are written in the german language. PDF is produced with XSL Stylesheets 1.79.2 shipped within Oxygen 24 and the Antenna House Formatter v7.
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> Since most content is english, /book/@xml:lang is 'en'. Fragments in german have @xml:lang='de' at the appropriate level, e. g. for section or note elements. Sometimes i have phrase or emphasis elements only because of the @xml:lang attribute.
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> Observation is, that hyphenation is wrong in the PDF Document for the german fragments. I think i have found the reason, but i am puzzled. There are two issues which i can't understand:
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> 1) There is a template named "language.attribute" in I10n.xsl. It calculates the language value looking at the ancestor axis, and emits an attribute named @lang with that value. First Issue: the name of the attribute is wrong, the correct name is @language. See section 7.10.2 "Language"  in Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1.
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> 2) The template named "language.attribute" is rarely used. 2nd Issue: I had to create a customization layer for the templates that matches d:para or d:simpara, which do emit an fo:block element, so that they call the language.attribute template. Same for d:phrase and d:emphasis in inline.xsl
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> Maybe i have missed something obvious. Are there any reasons for this lack of language support?
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> Sincerely, Frank Steimke



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