Hugh Dixon wrote:
I am wanting to set up some style sheets to produce output text and HTML
in multiple languages, eg French, Chinese etc.
Has anyone done this?
ISOGEN has done this. I've developed a generic Java library to support
just this task (although it's not limited to XSLT processing, but it was
originally designed specifically to support XSLT-based processes). The
library is offered through an LGPL open source license. With this
library you can have a single XSLT transform that will handle the
generation of text for any set of national languages through the use of
a central "generated text database" document. It also provides features
for configuring and generating back-of-the-book indexes (intended
specifically for XSL-FO but could be used with any output target).
While the library's functionality could have been implemented entirely
in XSLT, I created the library for the following reasons:
- I wanted to be able to use the same functions, especially generated
text management, in non-XSLT contexts (i.e., XML editors)
- I thought it would be easier to develop, test, and deploy as Java
code than as XSLT code.
See http://www.isogen.com/downloads/cool_tools/i18n_support.jsp for more
info.
I also spoke about this code in the context of producing
internationalized back-of-the-book indexes with XSL-FO at Extreme Markup
2002. That paper is also on the ISOGEN Web site (downloads->white
papers). I will be speaking about internationalization and localization
of XSL-FO in general at XML Europe in May.
Cheers,
Eliot
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