Re: [Gramps-users] xml output. I18N

[Alex R. <sh...@gr...>]

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 06:35 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
> On 02/07/07, Alex Roitman <sh...@gr...> wrote:
> > > Is there a list of these 'decorations', such that they could be
> > > translated please?
> >
> > I am not sure what you mean by "decorations". All element and attribute
> > names are English: id, handle, person, change, etc.
> > What list are you asking about?
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> Not element names, element/attribute  content that is boiler plate,
> i.e. not entered by the user?
> It might be beneficial to have this in the language of the user, rather
> than English?

Do you mean the standard values for some types?
E.g. "married" for relationship etc?

> Rationale.
>   The xslt processing can use indirect processing to use  a key (say the =
English
> term ('called') to retrieve a locale specific version ('dit') from the
> fr.xml file,
> selected by the default language of the XML file.

I assume that you're talking about the standard values.

It is actually really hard to keep them localized in XML.
Imagine that a French relative or colleague sends you the data.
You might not even have French locale installed on your system.
You're then stuck reading those values. Imagine now it is Chinese :-)

We used to have them localized early one, and that led to no end
of troubles. People would run under different locales and everything
was messed up. Now we have english-only XML. GRAMPS manages translation
during run-time. I guess it's nice to have them localized in the
XSLT output as well.

As far as getting the translation: it's all in po file and ends up
in the compiled /usr/share/locale/LANG/LC_MESSAGES/gramps.mo file.
So a lookup on 'married' will retrieve localized string. I have no
idea about XSLT and whether and how it can hook up to the mo file.

If not, is the only option for XSLT a special XML file?

Alex

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Alexander Roitman   http://gramps-project.org