Re: Updated Fresnel Ontologies and Examples - internationalization

From: Chris Bizer <bizer_at_gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:03:17 -0500

> Chris Bizer wrote:
>
> >Hi David,
> >
> >yes, good idea. What do you think about having a fresnel:contentNoValue
> >property on the styleDescription class. Meaning you could say
> >
> >:knowsStyle fresnel:valueStyle [ fresnel:contentAfter ", " ;
> > fresnel:contentLast ". "
;
> > fresnel:contentNoValue
"This
> >guy knows nobody." ] ;
> >
> >
> It's hard for me to see how this fits in, as I'm not familiar with the
> rest of Fresnel.
>
> On a different note, the N3 code you showed seems to make some
> localization assumptions specific to English (or another similar
> language). ", " assumes a left-to-right text flow and also assumes the
> use of space (in Chinese, for example, there's no space between words).
> In Chinese, I think you can also just juxtapose several nouns to make up
> a list without having to use list separators.

This is a hard one. No idea.

:knowsStyle fresnel:valueStyle [ fresnel:contentAfter ", "_at_en ;
                                                fresnel:contentLast ".
_at_en ] ;

also doesn't help. Anybody else any solution?

Chris

> By the way, I would have
> named "contentAfter", "contentLast", and "contentNoValue" as
> "listSeparator", "listTerminator", and "emptyListIndicator". You might
> also try to fit " and " and ", and " in somewhere :-)
>
> A and B
> A, B, and C
>
> David
>
Received on Sat Mar 12 2005 - 17:02:14 EST