In addition to Ken's other helpful remarks:
What is the closest XPath expression which could get the value of an
element in a most preferred language?
"title[lang($preferredLanguage)]"
Thank you for pointing out the lang() function, however the heart of my
problem is that an element (<title>) may or may not be available in
$preferredLanguage, in which case I need to fallback to
$2ndPrefferedLanguage, instead of returning empty.
What I am looking for is an XPath expression, suitable for sticking in
the string() function, to get the most preferred non-null element.
The simple case is when there are two languages: $userLanguage and
$sourceLanguage
Let $userLanguage be "fr" (the user prefers to read French) and
$sourceLanguage be "en" (the original language of the data is English)
I need an expression, "string(...an expression for title given
$userLangague=fr and $sourceLanguage=en...)", which when applied to the
following, evaluates to "description archivistique":
<title xml:lang="en">archival description</title>
<title xml:lang="fr">description archivistique</title>
<title xml:lang="pt">descrição arquivística</title>
- but when applied to the following, evaluates to "information object":
<title xml:lang="en">information object</title>
<title xml:lang="pt">objeto informacional</title>
The more complicated case is when there is a weighted list of language
preferences, as in the HTTP Accept-Language request header - however I
hope that this simple case with generalize.
Thanks again, Jack
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