Re: Cocoon and Internationalization

[John L. Webber]

We're internationalizing in English and German (for now -- more 
languages may come later); we generally use the practices recommended in 
the Cocoon docs (master dictionary), but in addition, we split the 
master dictionary into several parts, a main dictionary and a 
subdictionary for each  semantic area. The subdictionaries are 
referenced in the main dictionary as entities. Splitting it up helps 
keep things manageable if you have more than a couple of dozen 
translation keys.

I also recommend writing tests to make sure you don't have any duplicate 
keys, and if you use i18n parameters checking for mismatched brackets 
(cost me 2 hours recently when this happened, Tomcat crashed every time 
with an OutOfMemoryError without giving a clue where the actual problem 
was).

I find it's hard after a while to keep the dictionaries up to date - old 
translations that aren't used any more as the webapp evolves tend to 
hang around. Anyone have any experience dealing with that?

John

Dean West wrote:

I have been tasked with internationalization for the company I work for, and
since we already use Cocoon in our current appliction - I am thinking that
the "I18n Transformer" should do the job?
I like the concept of the I18n Transformer because it seperates the
different langues into their own source XML documents... this SEEMS to be
way more efficient than having 1 xml source doc with a plethora of
"xml:lang" tags for each language translation.
Can anyone offer their expertise on this subject (best practices)?  - it
just seems really heavy on the xml engine to have to parse huge xml files
(containing all language translations).
 

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