I don't think you can achieve this simply without a web-server (which
will communicate between the browser and the file system).
A (laborious) alternative is to have all your stylesheets output the
necessary language specific alternatives and javascript code to
correctly choose them and render the document in the browser language
when it is loaded.
Harald Brinkmann wrote:
This is what I am trying to achieve without much success so far:
On a local harddrive or network (so there is no web server involved) the
user will point his file browser at some xml file. The xml file will
reference an xsl stylesheet like this:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Stylesheet.xsl"?>
My aim is for the stylesheet to find out the language setting of the user's
browser. I have tried JavaScript navigator.language. While I managed to show
the language setting in the browser window, what I really want, is to select
language dependent style info, like keywords, data format, etc., based on
the language setting. So, if my xml file contains something like this:
<Distance>100</Distance>
With a browser language setting of German this might automatically be
displayed as:
Entfernung: 100 km
and with English-US as:
Distance: 62 miles
My problem is not having multiple stylesheets achieving this, or using
external files with the language dependent info, the problem is the
automatic selection of the proper styling based on the browser setting.
I do not want to have the user having to select a language by some on-screen
mechanism. This only has to work in Internet Explorer 6.0, but if this also
works for other browsers that would be even better.
Since I am relatively new to the combination of xsl and scripting I would
appreciate an answer with foolproof examples that I can understand.
Cheers
Harald
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