Re: Dynamically specifying the DTD

Ross Bleakney wrote:

> Both of you have some good ideas, but before I consider them, let me explain
> my situation in more detail. I have to output some information that contains
> both user defined (non-localized) strings combined with localized strings.
> For example, I might want to output the following message:
> 
> "Fred is sick today"
> 
> The "Fred" part is user defined (and not localized) while the " is sick
> today." needs to be localized. I would like to output information to an XML
> file and then later (at presentation time) localize it. I can think of a
> couple ways to do this. My original idea was to output the information like
> this:
> 
> <message>Fred&MSG32;</message>
> 
> In the DTD would be the line:
> 
> <!ENTITY MSG32 " is sick today.">
> 
[snip]
hi ross.

I think you could solve this, with the document() function in your xsl.

with :

<message>Fred<msg nr="32" /></message>

in your XML and a some others with localized entries like

local_en.xml :
<msg nr="32"> is sick today</msg>

and local_de.xml :
<msg nr="32"> ist heute krank</msg>

and then in your xsl do something like this (sorry this is pseudo xsl, as I
just have 5 days of xsl experience)

<xsl:template match="msg">
    <x:param name="nr" select="@nr" />
    <x:value-of
        select='document(#filename#)//*[local-name()="msg" and @nr=$nr]'
    />
</x:template>

where #filename# will be local_en.xml for english-output or local_de.xml for
german ... and so on.

Hope this is clear ??

Imre


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