Re: Using XSLT for multi-lingual transforms (was: Re: generalpurposetranformation language)

[Matt Sergeant <matt at sergeant dot org>]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Etienne Posthumus 
>  
> > I have never worked for the translation startup and I don't have a clue
> > what those things are... ;-) Any Tips & Enlightenment welcome!
> 
> I'm sorry if  my notification was abusing. (  I think I have to use such 
> things, to prevent the explanations of  'localhost'  ).
> 
> Well .. the tip N1 could be that to maintain large multilingual website 
> the simplest solution could be  to assign different http port 
> to  each language.  80 to English, 81 to German e t.c. This allows 
> to keep the structure of  ( actualy two ) websites the same and 
> not to spend much  time on changing the URL's. I mean  you can 
> have 
> 
> <A href="/somelink.here.xml"> in both vesions of 
> the same document, but not 
> 
> <A href="/somelink_eng.xml"> in English version and 
> <A href="/somelink_german.xml"> in German version.
> 
> With such design you have no need to worry about the 
> "language mode" when generating the urls  ( because 
> the port number is the "language mode" and it is always 
> accessible when you need it ). Such thing should minimize 
> your need in  multiple stylesheets. There are also 
> some other ways, like proxies e t.c. There is realy too 
> many different solutions there. 

Lets not forget the standardised method of content negotiation here!

If you're running Apache, you can just have several files:

file1.xml.en
file1.xml.de
file1.xml.fr

And Apache's mod_negotiation sorts out the details for you provided you
enable the Options MultiViews. See
http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_negotiation.html

I'm not sure about XML delivery systems for apache that can use this
system, other than my own, so here's a plug for the Apache XML Delivery
Toolkit: http://xml.sergeant.org/axdtk/

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