The SMIL Tutorial - Advanced Users - <switch> by the source

Chapter 5. Advanced Users - screen 8 of 11

<switch> by the source

Our example can be written as follow:

 <body>
  <switch>

   <!-- English only -->
   <par system-language="en">
    <text src="you_are_english.txt" region="main_message" />
    <!-- testing the screen size -->
    <switch>
     <text src="800_600.en.txt" region="size"
           system-screen-size="800X600" />
     <text src="1024_768.en.txt" region="size"
           system-screen-size="1024X768" />
     <text src="another_size.en.txt" region="size" />
    </switch>
    <!-- testing the bitrate -->
    <switch>
     <text src="14000bps.en.txt" region="bitrate"
           system-bitrate="14000" />
     <text src="28000bps.en.txt" region="bitrate"
           system-bitrate="28000" />
     <text src="another_bitrate.en.txt" region="bitrate" />
    </switch>
   </par>

   <!-- French only -->
   <par system-language="fr">
    <text src="vous_etes_francais.txt" region="main_message" />
    <!-- testing the screen size -->
    <switch>
     <text src="800_600.fr.txt" region="size"
           system-screen-size="800X600" />
     <text src="1024_768.fr.txt" region="size"
           system-screen-size="1024X768" />
     <text src="another_size.fr.txt" region="size" />
    </switch>
    <!-- testing the bitrate -->
    <switch>
     <text src="14000bps.fr.txt" region="bitrate"
           system-bitrate="14000" />
     <text src="28000bps.fr.txt" region="bitrate"
           system-bitrate="28000" />
     <text src="another_bitrate.fr.txt" region="bitrate" />
    </switch>
   </par>

   <!-- The following text is displayed for other languages -->
   <text src="unknown_language.txt" region="main_message" />

  </switch>
 </body>

Source - See it running in SOJA