The MSR DTDs can be configured for multilingual operation. To use the multilingual DTD configuration the DTD switch "multilinguality : YES or NO" have to be set.
The description of multilingual texts is made through multiple terminal elements that is multiple elements with content of #PCDATA. Multilingual elements get one of the additional language elements <l1>,<l2>, <l3>,<l4>,<l10> to build an aggregate of terminal elements. These language elements provide an attribute [l] where the language of this element can be specified. The content of the attribute [l] have to be defined as two-letter lower-case symbols according to the [Code for the representation of names of languages;ISO639::1988((E/F));;Part1;]
Figure 13: Multilingual Paragraph