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

[steven987 <ste...@co...>]

Thank you for your reply.  See my comments below...

Tammo van Lessen wrote:
> 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.
>
I wanted to avoid Java code in my JSP pages, hence the request for a tag 
library.  I think if a tag library exist, many more people will use 
Gettext Commons.  Both JSTL and Jakarta's I18N tag library make your 
code unreadable.  Maybe if I find time, I will write one...

> 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 :)
>
I'm not that concerned about extracting the tag element.  I figure I 
could write a Perl script if xgettext or the code above does not work.

Thanks,
-Steven


> Best,
>   Tammo
>