Hi.
Our systems are all still tied to XSL 1.0 (with no nodeset extensions)
so I can't use variables the way you do in your example.
Instead we use the document function to get what we call the dictionary.
The language specific values are stored in an xml file:
<dictionary>
<bundle language="english">
<term key="TTitle">XMP Abstract for the file</term>
... other english terms
</bundle>
<bundle language="german">
<term key="TTitle">XMP Steckbrief der Datei</term>
... other german terms
</bundle>
</dictionary>
Then at the top of your XSL:
<xsl:param name="language"/>
<xsl:variable name="dictionary"
select="document('path/to/dictionary/xml')/dictionary/bundle[(_at_)language=$
language]"/>
Then to get the values:
<xsl:value-of select="$dictionary/term[(_at_)key='TTitle']"/>
Terms of course could have more complex structure as needed.
------------->Nathan
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Nathan Young
CDC Site Dev->Interface Development Team
A: ncy1717
E: natyoung(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com
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From: cavecatem(_at_)directbox(_dot_)com
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Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 7:32 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Language-specific output
Hi all,
I'm working on a stylesheet that transforms XMP-data to a
nicely layouted HTML file.
I'm working with oxygen and saxon8b (i.e. XSLT 2.0).
Unfortunately, there is the problem of internationalisation,
i.e. we have to be able to create at least a German an
English version of the HTML file.
I'm still new to practicing my XML/XSLT-skills so my problems
might simply arise from lack of practice. I didn't find an
answer when looking in the list archive, though.
Rather than maintain two language versions of the stylesheet,
I thought I could try variables in an external file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="2.0">
<xsl:variable name="TFilename">
<a lang="de">Datei: </a>
<a lang="en">File: </a>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="TTitle">
<a lang="de">XMP Steckbrief der Datei </a>
<a lang="en">XMP Abstract for the file </a>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="TExifTitle">
<a lang="de">EXIF-Daten</a>
<a lang="en">EXIF-Data</a>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="TExposureTime">
<a lang="de">Belichtungszeit [s]</a>
<a lang="en">Exposure time [s]</a>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="lightsource">
<a code="1">
<a lang="de">unbekannt</a>
<a lang="en">unknown>/a>
</a>
<a code="1">
<a lang="de">Tageslicht</a>
<a lang="en">Artificial</a>
<a>
...
</xsl:variable>
So I call the normal variables
with <xsl:value-of select="$variablename/a [(_at_)lang = $lang] />
and the complex ones with
with <xsl:value-of select="$variablename/a [(_at_)code = $code]/a
[(_at_)lang = $lang] />
It was a bit tricky to get around the xsl:include/xsl:import
problem, as the stylesheets are modular and my parser
insisted that I have to include/import the external file into
all sub-stylesheets which then in turn leads to problems with
precedence.
Three questions actually:
1. Why does the parser insist on me declaring the variables
in each separate stylesheet, when he works on the parent
stylesheet where the text variable stylesheet is incuded as a
top-level element?
The same doesn't happen with <xsl:param name=lang> which is
only declared in the top level stylesheet.
2. Someone metionend a while ago that it is better to avoid
variables as they create result tree fragments. Is there a
better way to do this?
3. The XMP data sometimes contains language-sepcific data in
elements of the type lang alt, e.g.
<dc:description>
<rdf:Alt>
<rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">Pferde bei der
Bachueberquerung</rdf:li>
<rdf:li xml:lang="en">Horses crossing a stream</rdf:li>
</rdf:Alt>
Is there a way to get either my specified language or - if
that is not present - the 'language' x-default?
The following works but doing this for a lot of elements
makes it rather slow.
($lang is passed as a global parameter when saxon is called)
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when
test="rdf:Description/dc:rights/rdf:Alt/rdf:li/@xml:lang = $lang">
<xsl:value-of
select="rdf:Description/dc:rights/rdf:Alt/rdf:li[(_at_)xml:lang = $lang]"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of
select="rdf:Description/dc:rights/rdf:Alt/rdf:li[(_at_)xml:lang
= 'x-default']"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
Thanks for any suggestions that might help.
Regards
CJ
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