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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21596 [PATCH] Simplifications to Language Resource Files ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-07-17 21:45 ------- Glen, thank you for your patch. I haven't had a chance to review it in detail, but I do have one comment for you. I agree that it would be desirable for the message files to inherit from a common base class that defines the message keys. The problem is that IBM's somewhat esoteric rules for translation of Java message files currently requires the files to either be properties files or to extend ListResourceBundle directly. IBM developers working on Xalan would like to continue to contribute translated messages to Apache, but in order to do that, we need to have the messages in a form that complies with IBM's rules for message translation. As an alternative, I'd like to suggest you take a look at the way the definitions of message services and their keys are separated from the localized messages themselves in the org.apache.xalan.xsltc.compiler.util.ErrorMsg and org.apache.xalan.xsltc.compiler.util.ErrorMessages* classes.
