Semantically Marking Up Translations
I'm in the process of marking up an historical manuscript which has been translated from German into English. On the web page I will be providing both languages side by side. Is th
Solution 1:
Without an example of the data it's hard to say; but is there a reason that you couldn't section
them together, and provide the languages within sibling blockquote
s; these then carry the context correctly, and can be styled to appear side by side.
<section>
<blockquote lang="en">English</blockquote>
<blockquote lang="de">Deutsch</blockquote>
</section>
Solution 2:
I think that table
could be used here to relate the original text to its translation:
<table lang="en">
<tr>
<th>Original/English</th>
<th>Translation/German</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><blockquote>…</blockquote></td>
<td lang="de"><blockquote>…</blockquote></td>
</tr>
</table>
(assuming that both versions are actually quoted from a different source)
It would be possible to divide the original and the translation into sections or pages or paragraphs (or whatever), if useful, each represented by a separate row (tr
).
See also my answer to a similar question.
Note that by using blockquote
the headings of the manuscript (and the translation) are not part of the document outline.
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