Re: [Bodington-developers] TMX for i18n

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

Alistair Young wrote:
> I'm thinking of using TMX for a more robust localisation system, 
> especially if we have to revert to CLASSPATH stuff.

What problems do you envisage?

> http://www.lisa.org/tmx/
> 
> Basically, each template would have it's own TMX file, which contains 
> all available translations of it's strings.

Does this make it harder for people to be working on translations at the 
same time as someone has to merge the files back together.

> Would be cleaner than separate language speciific Properties files.

What do we gain? What is wrong with the properties file approach? 
Doesn't this mean someone has to have an understanding of XML if they 
are going to edit the file? Wouldn't most people find the simple 
(inflexible) properties files easier?

> I'd use SAX to keep the overhead down when loading the tmx files. 
> Although each tmx contains all languages, only those that are used would 
> be loaded into memory.

So if we have 500 templates all 500 TMX files would be loaded into memory?

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