On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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!)

currently, the element that contains the description would need to
have the attribute lang="lc" specified; where lc is the language code
designating the language the description is written in.

what you’re describing as ideal would be a good feature request.

>
> 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).

you don’t need to merge the metadata, but copy the lc value into the
description element as a lang="lc" attribute. this can be done
programmatically or via xslt. unfortunately xslt is not straight
forward and takes a bit of time to sort out unless you already have
experience with it. i’ll see if i can work on this later this week,
but if someone else already has xslt experience please let liam know
if you can help him out.


with kind regards,
dan

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