Hi,

I have a new issue I need to resolve and I wanted to run by my solution --
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TRINIDAD-728
"support for el to be used in a skin to bind to other translation data sources"

Currently, a SkinExtension and SkinAddition can have resource bundles associated with them so that a person can "skin" text.
We have customers who want to use a Map that is EL-accessible instead of a ResourceBundle.

I'd like to add a  'translation-map' element to the <skin> and <skin-addition> elements in trinidad-skins.xml.
I'd add new constructors to SkinExtension and SkinAddition to accept a translationMap ValueExpression.

Let me know what you think and if you think 'translation-map' is a good name for the new element.
See below for an example.

Thanks,
Jeanne

from trinidad-skins.xml:
    <skin>
        <id>
            purple.desktop
        </id>
        <family>
            purple
        </family>
        <render-kit-id>
            org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.desktop
        </render-kit-id>
        <style-sheet-name>
            skins/purple/purpleSkin.css
        </style-sheet-name>
        <bundle-name>
            org.apache.myfaces.trinidaddemo.resource.SkinBundle
        </bundle-name>
    </skin>
    <!-- You can extend any skin you want. Here we want the purple
    skin, but with a bigger font size -->
    <skin>
        <id>
            purpleBigFont.desktop
        </id>
        <family>
            purpleBigFont
        </family>
        <extends>
            purple.desktop
        </extends>
        <render-kit-id>
            org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.desktop
        </render-kit-id>
        <style-sheet-name>
            skins/purple/purpleBigFontSkin.css
        </style-sheet-name>
        <translation-map>#{skinTranslationMap.contents}</translation-map>
    </skin>

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