Re: How does XSLT deal with international characters?

On Tue, May 01 '01 at 15:40, Frank Zhou wrote:
>       I thought someone in the list might be able to answer this question
> for me. I am wondering how XSLT deals with internationalization? My
> particular question is that suppose in one XML document all the tags and
> contents (is it allowed?) are in English, while the other one in Japanese,
> how do people handle this tranformation?  If you could refer me to any
> documents explaining these issues, that would be great!
What exactly is your problem?

If your (target) japenese tags are valid XML, you can use an XSL-T
(in either PULL or PUSH "mode") to convert english tags. Doing this with
the content of the tags is feaseale but no fun.

e.g. (english -> german, don't know japanese ;-))

given XML document:

<contact>
  <titel>Mr.</title>
  <surename>Goetz</surename>
  <name>Bock</name>
  <company>BlackNet IT-Consulting</company>
  <street>Nettelbeckstr. 7</street>
  <city>Munich</city>
  <zip>81929</zip>
  <country>Germany</country>
</contact>

intended target XML:

<kontakt>
  <anrede>Hr.</anrede>
  <vorname>Goetz</vorname>
  <name>Bock</bock>
  <firma>BlackNet EDV-Beratung</firma>
  <strasse>Nettelbeckstr. 7</strasse>
  <stadt>Muenchen</stadt>
  <postleitzahl>81929</postleitzahl>
  <land>Deutschland</land>
</kontakt>

As you can see, there is a pritty stright forward one2one mapping. But
there are also some content transformations: 
    Mr. -> Hr. 
    Germany -> Deutschland 
    ...
i will not do them here.

XSL-T fragment (pull):

<xsl:template match="contact">
  <kontakt>
    <anrede>
      <xsl:call-template name="transformTitle">
        <xsl:param name="title">
          <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
        </xsl:param>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </anrede>
    <vorname><xsl:value-of select="surename"/></vorname>
    <name><xsl:value-of select="name"/></name>
    <firma><xsl:value-of select="company"/></firma>
    <strasse><xsl:value-of select="street"/></strasse>
    <stadt><xsl:value-of select="city"/></stadt>
    <postleitzahl><xsl:value-of select="zip"/><postleitzahl>
    <land>
      <xsl:call-template name="transformCountry">
        <xsl:param name="country">
          <xsl:value-of select="country"/>
        </xsl:param>  
      </xsl:call-template>  
    </land>
  </kontakt>
</xsl:template>  

The called templates (transformTitle and transformCountry) allow you to
do the above mentioned transformations (but you have to write them
yourself).

BTW: It has proven to be very helpfull to not ask "How do you <some
vague idea/>" but to say "I have <XML/>, I want <XML/>. I've tried
<XSL/>. But it does not work <because/>". But please keep the <XML/> and
<XSL/> parts as short as possible and as verbose as necessary (and do
some indenting to make it nice to read on a 80 colomn text terminal).

Have fun,
    Goetz.

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