Forum OpenACS Improvement Proposals (TIPs): Re: TIP #66: (Proposed) Standards for Internationalizing Content

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11: Re: TIP #66: (Proposed) Standards for Internationalizing Content (response to 1)
Posted by Jun Yamog on 06/09/04 03:03 PM
Hi Joel,

I agree with Dave, it should be cr_item_rel.  We have actually changed our design in of our project from cr_child_rel to cr_item_rel.  We are implementing it right now.  The reason why we decided to use cr_item_rel is that localized items must be able to exists even if the parent item is deleted.  The items are peers and should not be parent-child relation.

The other aspect that Dave is mentioning is keeping track how things where translated.  Its essentially a different TIP as Dave mentions.  Essentially we have a requirement and should also be useful in general to keep track things where cloned for translation purposes for historical reasons.

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14: Re: TIP #66: (Proposed) Standards for Internationalizing Content (response to 11)
Posted by Jim Lynch on 06/10/04 05:15 PM
Jun,

Under what conditions would the original item be deleted?

If the original item is deleted, how will you find the other localizations for that item?

I'd probably go for a single anchor item that contains or is parent of the translations for that item. Delete this anchor implies deleting all the translations: what reason would they have to exist otherwise? if a localization did exist, how would you find the other localizations when that's necessary?

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15: Re: TIP #66: (Proposed) Standards for Internationalizing Content (response to 11)
Posted by Jim Lynch on 06/10/04 05:17 PM
One more thing... you should still be able to keep a digraph of the translation order (what was cloned for what language, etc) and still have a parent or container item.