I'm sure it can be improved, but if you want to see an example of a library that makes use of map:map objects and server fields, like Mike mentioned, you can go here: https://github.com/ryanjdew/XQuery-i18n/blob/master/i18n.xqy
-Ryan Dew On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Michael Blakeley <[email protected]>wrote: > Have you looked at /MarkLogic/appservices/utils/translate.xqy yet? It's > undocumented and may not do everything you want, but it might offer some > ideas. > > For a large lookup-table I would consider using map:map XML serialization. > That way you can build the map quickly from stored XML, and lookups via > map:get will be very fast. For even more speed you could cache the map in a > server-field, with versioning to handle updates. > > -- Mike > > On 19 Feb 2013, at 07:16 , Jakob Fix <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > this may be slightly off-topic for the list .... say, you want to > maintain an application that provides several user interface languages > (say, English, French and German), are there any best practices on managing > labels and static text? > > > > I'm thinking of having a simple look-up XML file that contains the > labels indexed by language. But then, the question is how to deal with > plural forms, interspersing dynamic bits (like "We have found " + 11 + " > hits.") and all the other fun bits. I know that this is a general headache, > and that there are solutions like gettext (and others?). Is there an > implementation for XML, by any chance? > > > > Any experience with that in the context of MarkLogic? Also, would a > look-up XML be efficient when used via xquery and xslt? > > > > I'd be grateful for any pointers. > > > > cheers, > > Jakob. > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general >
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