Hi
> I think using metadata to create a relationship between pages is the > most sensible. I agree that would probably be nicer.
I also think that's the way to go. The language of a page can be determined by it's namespace and saved to $meta['language']. I personally would opt for lang:ns:page rather than ns:lang:page, but either way is possible.
> [...] ~~LANG:es:translation~~ gives the > name of the translated page. If I understand cortrectly what you mean, that would require the translator to edit every other language version of the page. You might not want to let them; you might not want to have to keep track of it al manually; you might not want to have to update already existing pages (thus changing their history; thus affecting RSS feeds, etc.) just because a translation was added, becasue after all, the original didn;t in fact change. It would be nicer if there were some way that Dokuwiki itself automatically 'sees', by their mere existence, that different translations of the a page exist. Some sort of "istranslationof" parameter perhaps?
Exactly. There is no Dublin Core metadata term[1] for translations, but $meta['relation']['istranslationof'] fits nicely into the scheme. Getting all translations of a page would then be very similar to a backlinks search. To speed this search up, we probably need a translation index relating pages to pages. -- esther [1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist