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Re: tool for managing XSL variables in different languages?

From: David Carlisle <davidc@---.--.-->
To: NULL
Date: 9/2/2004 12:53:00 PM


  for "de" it's:
  
  <xsl:variable name="text.greetings" select="'Benutzername'" />
  <b><xsl:value-of select="$text.greetings" /></b>

that means you have to modify the XSL for each language, and can't
easily be extended to support more than one language at a time (eg the
current language from an xml:lang attribute in the source file)

If instead your language config file was more like

<text name="greetings">
  <x lang="en">Greetings</x>
  <x lang="de">Benutzername</x>
</text>
...

then instead of going 
<xsl:value-of select="$text.greetings" />
you'd go

<xsl:value-of select="$lang-config/text[@name='greetings']/x[@lang='de']" />

here you can eaily replace 'de' by for example 
ancestor-or-self::*[@xml:lang][1]/@xml:lang
which gets the in scope xml:lang attribute, or have some xsl code to
provide a fall back or warning message if the language specific text is
absent. 

David

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