hmm - confusing! looks like it will have to be handwork until you get a
feel for whether you should merge or not

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]> 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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>>
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