1. are you sure blank is truly blank? i.e. there could be some default
language you are not seeing
2. is there always a lang field attached when there is more than one
description?

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all, I could use some advice on a problem I'm having with prepping an
> upload...
>
> My batch of images contain descriptions written in a half-dozen languages,
> so I need to have different language tags for them. However, only SOME of
> the files have that metadata included (other times it's just blank so I
> can't help that).
>
> My metadata has these two elements, for example:
> <description> lorem ipsum </description>
> <language> en </language>
>
> And, if I understand the documentation correctly, I need for it to be
> formatted in this way if I want to get the GWT to automatically wrap the
> language template:
> <description lang='en'> lorem ipsum </description>
>
> Question 1: Is that correct that I need to merge these two metadata fields
> in that way? Or, am I able to leave them as they currently are (that would
> be ideal!)
>
> Question 2: If I DO have to merge them, how can I merge these two fields
> when only SOME of the records have a <language> tag at all? (recalling that
> I can't add the same tag to all the records because they're in multiple
> different languages).
>
> I hope this makes sense...
>
> Sincerely,
> -Liam
>
> wittylama.com
> Peace, love & metadata
>
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