[Xsltforms-support] multilingual display w/xf:output?

[Efraim F. <efr...@gm...>]

Hi,

This is something I'm not quite sure how to do in XSLTForms (or, in 
XForms at all, for that matter):

Let's say I have an instance that gets its data from some external 
source, and the data has language information associated with it (an 
xml:lang attribute), say it looks like:
<p xml:lang="en">
<span>English</span>
</p>

or
<p xml:lang="he">
<span>עברית</span>
</p>


The language choice should invoke different formatting. For example, 
some languages require different fonts or directionality, which is 
usually set in the CSS.

The best solution I came up with is something like (note: tests using 
lang() fail with an error):
<xf:repeat nodeset="span[../@xml:lang='en']"/>
<html:span xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<xf:output ref="."/>
</html:span>
</xf:repeat>
<xf:repeat nodeset="span[../@xml:lang='he']"/>
<html:span xml:lang="he" lang="he">
<xf:output ref="."/>
</html:span>
</xf:repeat>
...
This solution will become unscalable as the number of supported 
languages increases.

Is there any better way for an xf:output to retain some of the metadata 
associated with its instance data?

Since this isn't really an XSLTForms question, is there a generic XForms 
email list that would be a more appropriate forum?

Thanks,

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Efraim Feinstein
Lead Developer
Open Siddur Project
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