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							- <refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
 
-           xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
 
-           xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
 
-           xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
 
-           xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 
-           version="5.0" xml:id="olink.lang.fallback.sequence"> 
 
- <refmeta> 
 
- <refentrytitle>olink.lang.fallback.sequence</refentrytitle> 
 
- <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">string</refmiscinfo> 
 
- </refmeta> 
 
- <refnamediv> 
 
- <refname>olink.lang.fallback.sequence</refname> 
 
- <refpurpose>look up translated documents if olink not found?</refpurpose>
 
- </refnamediv> 
 
- <refsynopsisdiv> <src:fragment xml:id="olink.lang.fallback.sequence.frag">
 
- <xsl:param name="olink.lang.fallback.sequence"></xsl:param>
 
- </src:fragment> 
 
- </refsynopsisdiv> 
 
- <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info> 
 
-  
 
- <para>This parameter defines a list of lang values
 
- to search among to resolve olinks.
 
- </para>
 
- <para>Normally an olink tries to resolve to a document in the same
 
- language as the olink itself.  The language of an olink
 
- is determined by its nearest ancestor element with a
 
- <tag class="attribute">lang</tag> attribute, otherwise the
 
- value of the <parameter>l10n.gentext.default.lang</parameter>
 
- parameter.
 
- </para>
 
- <para>An olink database can contain target data for the same
 
- document in multiple languages.  Each set of data has the
 
- same value for the <tag>targetdoc</tag> attribute in
 
- the <tag>document</tag> element in the database, but with a 
 
- different <tag>lang</tag> attribute value.
 
- </para>
 
- <para>When an olink is being resolved, the target is first
 
- sought in the document with the same language as the olink.
 
- If no match is found there, then this parameter is consulted
 
- for additional languages to try.</para>
 
- <para>The <parameter>olink.lang.fallback.sequence</parameter>
 
- must be a whitespace separated list of lang values to
 
- try.  The first one with a match in the olink database is used.
 
- The default value is empty.</para>
 
- <para>For example, a document might be written in German
 
- and contain an olink with
 
- <literal>targetdoc="adminguide"</literal>.
 
- When the document is processed, the processor
 
- first looks for a target dataset in the
 
- olink database starting with:</para>
 
- <literallayout><literal><document targetdoc="adminguide" lang="de"></literal>.
 
- </literallayout>
 
- <para>If there is no such element, then the
 
- <parameter>olink.lang.fallback.sequence</parameter> 
 
- parameter is consulted.
 
- If its value is, for example, <quote>fr en</quote>, then the processor next
 
- looks for <literal>targetdoc="adminguide" lang="fr"</literal>, and
 
- then for <literal>targetdoc="adminguide" lang="en"</literal>.
 
- If there is still no match, it looks for
 
- <literal>targetdoc="adminguide"</literal> with no
 
- lang attribute.
 
- </para>
 
- <para>This parameter is useful when a set of documents is only
 
- partially translated, or is in the process of being translated.  
 
- If a target of an olink has not yet been translated, then this
 
- parameter permits the processor to look for the document in
 
- other languages.  This assumes the reader would rather have
 
- a link to a document in a different language than to have
 
- a broken link.
 
- </para>
 
- </refsection> 
 
- </refentry>
 
 
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