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To address this shortcoming Schematron should make the abstraction of a specific message and its natural language content explicit. Rather than treating localized variants as different diagnostics, they should be treated as one diagnostic with different localized variants. A sch:message element that wraps the mixed-content templates would do the trick.

Figure 4. Multi-lingual schema, improved

<sch:schema xmlns:sch="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron">
    <sch:title>Improved Example of Multi-Lingual Schema</sch:title>
    <sch:pattern>
        <sch:rule context="dog">
            <sch:assert test="bone" diagnostics="bone"/>
        </sch:rule>
    </sch:pattern>
    <sch:diagnostics>
        <sch:diagnostic id="bone">
            <sch:message xml:lang="en">A dog should have a bone.</sch:message>
            <sch:message xml:lang="de">Ein Hund sollte ein Bein haben.</sch:message>
        </sch:diagnostic>
    </sch:diagnostics>
</sch:schema>