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Re: [xsl] xslt and i18n

2009-02-05 06:53:47
Andrew Welch wrote:

I would image it would be straightforward to implement my own i18n
solution, something like:

<title>
 <xsl:value-of select="fn:getLocalisedValue('page.title', 'The
English Title', 'de_DE')"/>
</title>

where the arguments are token key, default value and locale.


That is almost the way I usually do it, in conjunction with a localization.xml file. I don't supply any default text, because I have defined a default language and assume that those strings will always be present in the XML file.

Jirka Kosek wrote:

I think that replacing all literal texts inside template by xsl:value-of
and function call is overkill and it makes stylesheet less readable.

To overcome this limitation I have integrated Gettext library into Saxon
some time ago:

http://xmlguru.cz/2006/10/saxon-gettext

That sounds interesting!

For my applications, customers love the ease of use with the localization.xml, which can easily be extended and corrected without any further software. To handle gettext files, they would need poedit and would have multiple files for all languages. Which might better fit other workflows.

- Michael

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