Re: Growing size of UI*Label.xml files

2014-10-03 Thread Pierre Smits
of the different components > >> - If I am not sure where a translation is supposed to reside in, I would > >> have to hunt it down in many files instead of one > >> - It also increases the probability of duplication which already exists > in > >> these monolithic

Re: Growing size of UI*Label.xml files

2014-10-03 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
cation which already exists in >> these monolithic UI files without breaking them down. I think this would >> only get worse with smaller and smaller files and reusing labels becomes >> less efficient. >> >> My 2 cents >> >> Taher Alkhateeb >> >> -

Re: Growing size of UI*Label.xml files

2014-10-03 Thread Pierre Smits
cient. > > My 2 cents > > Taher Alkhateeb > > - Original Message - > > From: "Adrian Crum" > To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org > Sent: Friday, 3 October, 2014 2:44:52 PM > Subject: Re: Growing size of UI*Label.xml files > > The label files can be spli

Re: Growing size of UI*Label.xml files

2014-10-03 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
get worse with smaller and smaller files and reusing labels becomes less efficient. My 2 cents Taher Alkhateeb - Original Message - From: "Adrian Crum" To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org Sent: Friday, 3 October, 2014 2:44:52 PM Subject: Re: Growing size of UI*Label.xml files

Re: Growing size of UI*Label.xml files

2014-10-03 Thread Pierre Smits
Looking at the tool(s) behind http://translate.apache.org, being pootle and the translation toolkit I see that it supports both. Though the xml file is in the XLIFF format, which is different to ours. For more info see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pootle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translate_T

Re: Growing size of UI*Label.xml files

2014-10-03 Thread Adrian Crum
The label files can be split out to separate languages, but the new files will need to be in the original Java *.properties or *.xml formats. Adrian Crum Sandglass Software www.sandglass-software.com On 10/3/2014 12:21 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: Maybe it is just me, but it seems that the UI*Label

Growing size of UI*Label.xml files

2014-10-03 Thread Pierre Smits
Maybe it is just me, but it seems that the UI*Labels.xml files in the configuration are becoming more cumbersome to manage and that it takes more and more time to process in OFBiz with each commit iteration. Currently all translations in each individual component is handled through distinct files