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Posted to dev@forrest.apache.org by Peter Donald <pe...@apache.org> on 2002/11/07 17:30:07 UTC
Language Selection?
Hi,
What do you think of adding a language to the skinconfig ? It would then add a
language code into the html tag like
<HTML lang="en">...
<HTML lang="en_au">...
<HTML lang="fr">...
etc.
This way we would get closer to passing 508 guildelines as explained here
http://bobby.watchfire.com:80/bobby/html/en/gls/g125.html
--
Cheers,
Peter Donald
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excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the
enemy's resistance without fighting. - Sun Tzu, 300 B.C.
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Re: Language Selection?
Posted by Rodent of Unusual Size <Ke...@Golux.Com>.
Jeff Turner wrote:
>
> There's vague plans to create a unified site description file, where this
> would fit. When that comes, book.xml's will go away too. Until then,
> book.xml is probably the best content metadata file we have..
um, beware -- making a single file the only way to go would be a mistake.
large sites often have different teams working on different portions,
and they're going to want the equivalent of the current book.xml
delegation rather than everyone frobbing on e master file..
Re: Language Selection?
Posted by Jeff Turner <je...@apache.org>.
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:13:04AM +1100, Peter Donald wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 04:15, Jeff Turner wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:30:07AM +1100, Peter Donald wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > What do you think of adding a language to the skinconfig ? It would then
> > > add a language code into the html tag like
> > >
> > > <HTML lang="en">...
> > > <HTML lang="en_au">...
> > > <HTML lang="fr">...
> >
> > Wouldn't it be more appropriate in the individual files?
>
> yep. But that would require a DTD change ;)
>
> > Or how about specifying a default language in book.xml:
> >
> > <book software="Forrest"
> > title="Apache Forrest"
> > copyright="@year@ The Apache Software Foundation"
> > language="en_au"
> > xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
> > ...
> > </book>
> >
> > and then in the future, individual pages could override it.
>
> You could do that but then you have to make sue you do it for every file.
Every book.xml file, ie one per directory, not per file.
> Where in reality most sites are all one language. IMHO there should be
> some mechanism to setup a default language - this could be overidden by
> book.xml or pages.
There's vague plans to create a unified site description file, where this
would fit. When that comes, book.xml's will go away too. Until then,
book.xml is probably the best content metadata file we have..
--Jeff
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Donald
> "Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who
> aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might
> think we're stupid." -- Jules Feiffer
>
>
Re: Language Selection?
Posted by Peter Donald <pe...@apache.org>.
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 04:15, Jeff Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:30:07AM +1100, Peter Donald wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What do you think of adding a language to the skinconfig ? It would then
> > add a language code into the html tag like
> >
> > <HTML lang="en">...
> > <HTML lang="en_au">...
> > <HTML lang="fr">...
>
> Wouldn't it be more appropriate in the individual files?
yep. But that would require a DTD change ;)
> Or how about specifying a default language in book.xml:
>
> <book software="Forrest"
> title="Apache Forrest"
> copyright="@year@ The Apache Software Foundation"
> language="en_au"
> xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
> ...
> </book>
>
> and then in the future, individual pages could override it.
You could do that but then you have to make sue you do it for every file.
Where in reality most sites are all one language. IMHO there should be some
mechanism to setup a default language - this could be overidden by book.xml
or pages.
--
Cheers,
Peter Donald
"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who
aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might
think we're stupid." -- Jules Feiffer
Re: Language Selection?
Posted by Jeff Turner <je...@apache.org>.
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:30:07AM +1100, Peter Donald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What do you think of adding a language to the skinconfig ? It would then add a
> language code into the html tag like
>
> <HTML lang="en">...
> <HTML lang="en_au">...
> <HTML lang="fr">...
Wouldn't it be more appropriate in the individual files?
Or how about specifying a default language in book.xml:
<book software="Forrest"
title="Apache Forrest"
copyright="@year@ The Apache Software Foundation"
language="en_au"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
...
</book>
and then in the future, individual pages could override it.
Since skin stylesheets are passed a $path, they could infer (via the
'dirname' template) the associated book.xml file, and then use document()
to fish out the default language.
Thoughts?
--Jeff
> etc.
>
> This way we would get closer to passing 508 guildelines as explained here
>
> http://bobby.watchfire.com:80/bobby/html/en/gls/g125.html
>