[MOBY-dev] the use-case for xml:lang

[markw at illuminae.com]

So... Should we allow more than one "description" element per service/obect/namespace to allow multiple languages per registration?  This would be a change to the API, but it would make sense to do so if this is the route we're going...

M


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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon <gordonp at ucalgary.ca>

Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:32:51 
To:Core developer announcements <moby-dev at lists.open-bio.org>
Cc:moby-dev at biomoby.org
Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] the use-case for xml:lang


Some services are registered in other languages for their free-text
descriptions for example.  In some places (I can't remember where
exactly at the moment), the registry assumes that the description is
English and uses the xml:lang tag to say so when returning XML.  It's
probably a good idea to have the xml:lang in the returned info, but it
should maintain the xml:lang tag used to register the service.

Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> at the last Moby meeting we decided that there was a need for MOBY
> Central to observe the xml:lang attribute.  Can someone please send me
> an explicit use-case so that I am sure I understand why/where this
> attribute is going to appear and what changes to MOBY Central and the
> database might be necessary to accommodate this change?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
>
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