[Yanel-dev] Associate language versions

[Michael Wechner]

Josias Thöny wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In order to build a navigation framework, we need a way to associate 
> the different language versions of a page. I.e. for each language 
> version of a page we need to know how to get the other language versions.
>
> There seem to be the following three possibilities:
>
> 1. Links to language versions in meta data of each language version
> e.g. meta data of search.html points to suche.html and vice versa (use 
> uuids).
> Problems:
> - knowledge duplication
> - when adding/removing a language version, the meta of all other 
> versions has to be updated
> - meta data not implemented yet
>
> 2. Common meta data with links to each language version
> meta data refers to a common "language-cluster" meta data, which 
> refers to all language versions.
> Problems:
> - extra meta file needed
> - meta data not implemented yet


could we use this for something else? I mean is there any other data 
being shared by all languages?

>
> 3. Sitetree
> the sitetree refers to the different language versions of a node.
> Problems:
> - maybe language versions should be orthogonal to sitetree
> - sitetree not really integrated yet (new pages are not automatically 
> added to sitetree)


Please note that the "realm navigation" (not the realm navigation) does 
not have to contain all pages and hence I think cannot be used.

>
> WDYT?
>
> I don't know which option would be the best one. To me the lenya 
> approach (tight coupling of language versions, encoding the language 
> in the url) seems to be much easier to handle...


true, but not what our "users" want ;-) hence I think we either need to 
implement (1) or (2).
I recently had another presentation and people were asking explicitely 
for decoupling language from the URL.

I know it's a challenge, but isn't that great :-) (I know I sound like 
one of the british officers in "River Kwai" ;-)

Cheers

Michael

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