Gask, suoidnemánu 19. b. 2006 13.23, Ross Gardler čálii: > Børre Gaup wrote: > > I have successfully managed to i18n'ize our forrest documentation, where > > menus, tabs and content have the same language. > > > > I generate the different language specific sites into > > site/build/$langname. > > > > Some of our pages are available in up to five languages, but most are > > just available in one language. > > > > If I display a multilingual document, I would like to have a link to the > > parallel documents in the other languages. That means, if I am looking at > > a page displayed in norwegian, and I have that document also in english > > and finnish, I would like to have a link to those pages also (preferrably > > in the menu). > > There are a number of things you need to do here: > > 1) decide what language variants are available > 2) insert a link to the available pages in the body of the document > (like the PDF link) > 3) insert a link into the menu > > For 1) > > You need to use the directory generator. This will give you an XML file > continaing details of all the files in a given directory and > sub-directories. > > You can find examples of its use in the resume and projectInfo plugins > (note that you will need the latest sources for these plugins the > samples have been added after the 0.7 release was packaged). > > You can find docs for the directory generator in Cocoon docs. > > For 2) > > Using the output of 1) you will need to enhance the skin (as you > suspected) to insert the relevant link into the skinned pages content. > Take a look at how the PDF link is inserted at the skinning stage. This > will show you how to add other links to your language files when they > are available. > > For 3) > > You will need to intercept the request for site.xml and dynamically > insert the relevant nodes for the available languages. Again, you will > need to use the output of 1). There are some examples of how to do this > in both the resume and projectInfo plugins (look for "site-snippet" in > the xmap files). > > Ross
Ok, thank you for the pointers. I will take a look, and report on how it goes. -- Børre Gaup
