On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> 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