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Re: Simple (external XML) internationalization with XSLT?

2005-10-12 20:16:56
Nathan Young (natyoung) escribió:
Andrew:

We have two approaches currently in use.  One is quite similar to the one used 
by the cocoon project, with the exception that the translation itself is done 
by an XSLT rather than by a java SAX filter (which sounds like what you'll end 
up doing?).

The other is much like the one people are talking about in this thread, where 
the XSL pulls in localized values at runtime.  We initially used this second 
approach because at that time the first solution didn't support a couple of key 
processing features:
 - what I've been calling the "mini templates" problem (in the cocoon doc, the section 
referred to by the heading "Translation with param substitution")
 - what I've been calling the "repeating values" problem where locales not only 
have different values for items but actually different numbers of those items (this one 
isn't referred to from the cocoon docs).

We are moving away from this since it needs to be coded into each XSL that 
needs to use it. Instead we're building onto our first solution so that it 
supports the cases we needed it to and can be used in a wider range of 
situations.

Probably this won't work for you, but on the off chance it will you might look 
at the XUL localization which has a dtd for each locale that defines custom 
entities for translated terms:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/xul-l10n.html

-------------->Nathan

Thanks for the info Nathan, I will look into it.

BTW: I am trying to achieve an XSL solution, not a SAX filter.

   Andrew   [ knocte ]

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