Hello, allow me to highlight Davor Cengija's Java.Net blog story titled "Luxor Localization" that I stumbled on while browsing javablogs.com.
Davor writes: Luxor is a useful tool: it really increases your productivity. Usage is simple: define your user interface in an XML file, add some Java meat around it and you have it running. Everything's nice and clean as long as you have only one human language to support. ... As soon as you introduce another language, you have problems. As shown in the XML snippet above, Luxor uses label, value and other attributes to assing the text to be displayed in the GUI. Unfortunatelly, those text values are hard coded and your only option is to provide different set of XML definitions for each human language you want to support. Please note that noone said 'different XML files', but 'different XML definitions', and that's the place where XSLT jumps in. The approach we took was to translate XML definitions on the fly, using a simple XSLT stylesheet. To achieve that, we needed to do four things: 1. Edit XML definitions and add a custom attribute to those elements you want to translate, 2. Create an XSLT stylesheet which will transform XML definitions, 3. Create your translation file in the language of your choice and 4. Edit Luxor's code and glue it all together. Full story @ http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/1141 Let us know what you think about Davor's approach. How do you handle internationalization in your XUL toolkit? I invite you to join us and post your comments to xul-talk. - Gerald PS: Davor's statement about hard-coded labels and values is only partly true. More than a year ago I started work on adding internationalization (i18n) support using locale-sensitive string tables (property like name-value pairs) so you no longer need to hard-code your labels or values in your XUL documents but instead you can use Velocity-style keys/variables (e.g. $mybutton.label and so on). See http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/luxor-xul/ramses-intl for an example. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
