[tei-council] Internationalization

Daniel Paul O'Donnell daniel.odonnell at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 23:35:00 EDT 2009


So would it be better in your opinion simply to copy identical elements 
into the new i18n namespace? I.e. if a Dutch translation of the 
guidelines uses div for div, div would nevertheless appear in the 
/ns/1.0/nl namespace?

In that sense, Tite is a useful thing, since, as Sebastian says, we 
haven't actually got any wild i18ns, while we do have a number of tites, 
runs and all.

David Sewell wrote:
> Hmm, others will need to weigh in as I have not worked much with i18n. 
> But I don't think it's a good solution, as in general (leaving Tite 
> aside as a sort of special case) it's not healthy to "mask" 
> differences in namespaces by using the DTD trick.
>
> (Are there in-the-wild examples of projects that have translated lots 
> of TEI element names into another language?)
>
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, O'Donnell, Dan wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> Would 3b work in the case of an internalisation too? (can't see why 
>> not). Is it a solution to the larger issue of what to do about 
>> schemas that modify some TEI elements and copy others?
>
> [...]
>
>> 3B. Include a DTD subset assigning the correct namespace attributes to
>> the convenience elements:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE text [
>>    <!ATTLIST i xmlns CDATA "http://www.tei-c.org/ns/tite/1.0">
>> ]>
>> <text xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
>>    <body>
>>       <p>This is a <i>valid</i> Tite document.</p>
>>    </body>
>> </text>
>>
>> When the latter document is parsed by an XML parser, it is assigned the
>> correct namespace, and will thus validate against a RELAX NG or W3C
>> Schema as well.
>

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