RE: [xsl] Replacing all Occurences of a String

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Roger,

If you construct your lookup table along the lines David suggested, you can 
use keys to rationalize (and optimize) access to it.

So, try something like this in your dictionary.xml:

<months>
   <month en="January" de="Januar" fr="Janvier"/>
   <month en="February" de="Februar" fr="Fevrier"/>
   [etc.]
</months>

Then, in your stylesheet

<xsl:variable name="dictionary" select="document('dictionary.xml')"/>
<!-- This does nothing but make the dictionary document accessible
      to the transformation -->

<xsl:key name="month-en" match="month" use="@en"/>
<xsl:key name="month-de" match="month" use="@de"/>
<xsl:key name="month-fr" match="month" use="@fr"/>
<!-- These set up access to your dictionary -->

When your source string is the name of a month in English, get its German 
equivalent by asking for

key('month-en', $englishstring)/@de

and, to go the other way,

key('month-de', $germanstring)/@en

This is a clean and easily-extensible way to manage the strings you need to 
replace in and out.

Compress it even more if you know your languages will never step on each other:

<xsl:key name="month" match="month" use="@en"/>
<xsl:key name="month" match="month" use="@de"/>
<xsl:key name="month" match="month" use="@fr"/>

key('month', $string)/@de  gives you German from English or French (or German)
key('month', $string)/@fr  gives you French from English or German (or French)

Enjoy,
Wendell

At 12:03 PM 8/30/01, Chris wrote:
>Roger,
>Have a look at
>http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200008/msg01300.html for
>some ideas on internationalization....


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