#### 8.9.2 Overriding language settings

You can override the [Templates]Languages setting in your project configuration file or in a document-specific configuration file by specifying a different value of @xml:lang for an element. If @xml:lang calls for a language different from the one the configuration setting specifies, DITA2Go switches to the indicated language file for that element and its children.

Omni Systems supplies language files for English, French, Spanish, German, Czech, and Russian. You can make your own language files for whatever languages you want, and reference them, chained together, from your project configuration file or from a document-specific configuration file. See §39.1.6 Understanding how language templates are organized.

To generate text within the content of an element where @xml:lang="", DITA2Go uses the default language, rather than omit the text. If you really want the text omitted, use your own language (for example, enx), and make a language configuration file for it with empty values for the text strings.

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