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Creating & Maintaining Links

5. Creating and Maintaining Links

When linking documents you must remember that the IIGS™ is serving documents in multiple languages.

If you are working with an English document then all links in that document must point to other English documents as follows: *.htm.en

If you are working with a German document then all links in that document must point to other German documents as follows: *.htm.de

If a file does not exist for a specific language then it should be linked to *.htm and this way the server will determine which language file to display.

Let's say you a have a page in German with links to two other documents:
Document_A is available in German.
Document_B is NOT available in German.

Then the links to these documents would be as follows:
<A HREF="Document_A.htm.de">Document_A</A> and
<A HREF="Document_B.htm">Document_B</A>

The link to Document_A will display Document_A in German, whereas the link to Document_B will display Document_B in the language determined by either:

1. The preferences set by the browser.
   or
   
2. As configured by the server (English being the first preference).

If and when Document_B becomes available in German the link will need to be updated to:
<A HREF="Document_B.htm.de">Document_B</A>