On 24.01.2008 23:15:09 Andreas Delmelle wrote: <snip/> > > Of course, we could add these message templates as javadoc tags (like > > the Blammo proposal, but in all languages) but that puts everything in > > one file which I'd like to avoid. As long as there are only English > > it's > > fine, but if the community starts producing all sorts of > > translations it > > could get messy. > > Agreed, although, OTOH we should precisely encourage the community to > bundle their efforts in providing FOP with default messages for the > different languages. I guess this is what you mean by "An existing > translation file is merged automatically so existing translations > aren't lost."
Sometimes, I'm too minimalistic. :-) What I mean by that is: The translation files will live in some directory in SVN (i.e. not under build/something). Suppose you have: translations.xml trans1: blah trans2: blah blah trans3: blah blah blah ...and you now add a new event method to one of the EventProducer interfaces. This adds a new translation to the XML file: translations.xml trans1: blah trans2: blah blah trans3: blah blah blah trans4: <empty> SVN will notice the file has changed and you will notice in the diff before committing that you have to add a missing translation. If you still forget it, you'll get an error message first time FOP is run and the translations are loaded. I do want to encourage that the community contributes translation files. It's a very easy way to contribute with no need for Java knowledge. Of course, as the stuff grows we will not always immediately have a translation for all new events which makes the fallback to English important. > In time we could also serve standard sets of FOP > resource JARs containing pre-generated XMLs that users can add to > their environment. Keep English as the only 'bootstrapped' language, > and offer the rest as optional (?) That's a possibility and easy to do but I'd really like to keep the translations in FOP's codebase. The thing with hyphenation is suboptimal enough. Jeremias Maerki
