change in language selection forces recursion to home page

[georgep]

What you describe is the native way Elxis works.
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Also language1 content and language2 contents are bind to different Itemid values. So currently, there is no way to say that content items with, for example Itemids 125 and 267, actually are the same thing in different languages. Again, the safest way to treat this is to return visitors to home page.
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This mechanism, has also a great advantage.

Advantage... yes an no, IMHO. Yes, due to your argumets above. No, since that not seems realy usabilty OK - could be confusing and frustrating; and it realys is, in fact, believe me.

I would prefere a kind of compromise: let the editor (administrator) indicate and "internal link" between language1.itemX and language2.itemY. If no link indicated, the navigation sistem use your soltion above as default.

[datahell]

Since my last post on this subject more than 4 months passed. So, here are the latest news: Elxis 2008 language module has a language switch which allows you (under certain circumstances) to change language and stay in the same page. So you just enable the switch in parameters and module does all the hard work automaticaly!