[xwiki-devs] [Discussion] Making XObjects work across languages

Hi guys, I met an issue recently on a project. We'd like to build an XWiki-based website that will be available in several languages. We'd like to use structured data, which means using XObjects. Unfortunately at the moment XObjects are not internationalized: they're available only in one language, even if a page exists in 2+ languages. A common workaround is to either duplicate all fields in the object (say, "type_FR" and "type_EN") or have 1 object per language, with a field handling the language property. In either way, custom sheets need to be developed to make it possible to modify the various languages of the page. There is also an issue with the search: in which language should the object's content be indexed? One solution would be to make it possible to have international languages handled directly in XWiki (the same way than the default title / content fields are handled now), but I'm not sure how much work that would take. WDYT? Guillaume