All of the records have 1 description field. But only some of the records
have a language field (and it is not always the same language).

On Wednesday, 27 May 2015, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[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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