Re: [XNap-Commons-Devel] Tag library for Gettext Commons?

[Tammo v. L. <tva...@ta...>]

Hi Steven,

sorry for the belated reply.

 > Is there a tag library for Gettext Commons
 > <http://xnap-commons.sourceforge.net/gettext-commons/index.html>?  Are
 > there examples of Java/JSP web applications that use Gettext Commons?
 > Gettext Commons seems much better than what's available in JSTL
 > <http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html> and
 > Jakarta's I18N tag library
 > <http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/i18n-doc/intro.html>.

No, not yet. I guess, it can be easily done - but the problem that I see 
is to extract the translation keys out of the JSP using xgettext.

Maybe it is possible to extract something like that:
<%
     I18n i18n = I18nFactory.getI18n(getClass());
%>
<%=i18n.tr("This text will be translated");%>

But I haven't tried that yet.

Another possibility is to extract all those strings using a grep/sed 
script into a separate file which gettext can parse:

grep -r "fmt:message" *.jspx *.kupu | sed s/.*key="\(.*\)".*/_("\1");/g' 
| uniq > phony.js

mkdir -p i18n
xgettext --from-code=UTF-8 -L java -k_ -p i18n *.js

This should work for the JSTL fmt taglib.

Better ideas are highly welcome :)

Best,
   Tammo

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