Lang macro output

[opoudjis]

We are using the lang:[] macro in the ISO Rice document, to output variant as multilingual variants of term designations. But we have done away with the variant element, outside of organisation names, in favour of repeating the element with different languages. This was done in order to simplify the Relaton grammar.

So we don't want

[[paddy]]
=== lang:en[paddy] lang:fr[paddy]

to output

<term id="paddy">
<preferred><expression>
<name><variant lang="en">paddy</variant> <variant lang="fr">paddy</variant></name>
</expression>
</preferred>

but

<term id="paddy">
<preferred><expression>
<name lang="en">paddy</name> 
<name lang="fr">paddy</name>
</expression>
</preferred>

But this needs to be generalised. If an element contains just lang:[] variant elements, it can be converted in this way. But if we have adjacent lang:[] instances in running text, we need to wrap them into spans:

This is a lang:en[A] lang:fr[B]

to

<span lang="en">A</span> <span lang="fr">B</span> 

We don't particularly want lang:[] used outside of Semantic XML elements like terms, but we do need to cope with it if it occurs in general, now that we have got rid of variant for language variants.

Btw @ronaldtse This is part of me finding discrepancies between the grammar and the output: variant should no longer be used in this sense.

[ronaldtse]

Thank you @opoudjis . Does the lang attribute work with blocks and paragraphs as well?

[opoudjis]

Not yet (outside of terms). In fact this is not an attribute, it is a macro for inline language-specific content.