On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:41:11 +1000 , Tim Vernum wrote: >> >And I'd love to see things like <echo> and <fail> extended to support >> >multiple messages, something like >> > >> ><fail> >> > <message lang="en">We need JMF to compile, please install >> it.</message> >> > <message lang="de">Bitte installieren Sie JMF.</message> >> ></fail> >> > >> >> I would rather seen this done as the include of a sub-build file that >> defines properties for the messages. For a given location they can >> just swap messages.xml files. That is closer to how you would do it in >> actual code as well. > >I would probably put them in a properties file, and it should be fairly >simple to write a task that selects and loads the correct properties >file based on the current locale. >
I just figured staying in XML would be more consistent. Otherwise we should use resources and the built-in Java i18n stuff. d
