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 At 24 Aug 2000 12:03 -0600, Mike Brown wrote:
> XML has a facility for communicating language-specific information in a
> standard way: the xml:lang attribute, which you can put on any element,
> and it will apply to that element and all its descendants, until
> redeclared, just like namespaces.
>
> XSLT/XPath have a function for accessing the language that is in effect
> for a given element, whether it is declared on that element on or one of
> its ancestors: lang().
If you do use xml:lang, then you can also do:
<xsl:template name="gettext">
<xsl:param name="string-name"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$string-name='next page'">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="lang()='de'">naechste Seite</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>next page</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$string-name='Results of database query'">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="lang()='de'">Ergebnis der Datenbankabfrage</xsl:when>
<!-- Sometimes you do need to select based on subfields -->
<xsl:when test="lang()='zh'">
<xsl:variable name="lang"
select="translate(ancestor-or-self::*/@xml:lang,
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ',
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$lang='zh-tw'">Traditional Chinese text</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$lang='zh-cn'">Simplified Chinese text</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:when>
<!-- You can use the default string as the parameter and
output it as the default when no other language matched -->
<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="$string-name"/></xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
>From your template, all you need is an xsl:call-template with the
right parameter value:
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h1><xsl:call-template name="gettext">
<xsl:with-param name="string-name"
select="'Results of database query'"/>
</xsl:call-template></h1>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
You could also do similar stuff when the language is a parameter to
the stylesheet.
Actually, you could use a second stylesheet to generate the named
template above from the sample data shown in other messages in this
thread. Generating the "zh-tw" and "zh-cn" cases would be tricky if
you are using xml:lang, but those cases wouldn't need the interior
xsl:choose if the language identifier is a parameter to the
stylesheet, since a simple comparison to the language identifier
variable would be sufficient.
Regards,
Tony Graham
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