> Baschir,
>
> What about generating the language on the HTML root element with
> something like: <html xml:lang="<%= ... %>">?
>
> Alex
>
> On Monday, November 2, 2009, Baschir Jaghoori
> <
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>> Many thanks for the tip with form runner, Erik.
>>
>> In the mean time I chose the following approach for i18n resources (see below). My goal was to minimize i18n specific code in my XForms.
>>
>>
>> Btw: Currently, one problem remains: The YUI calendar reads the locale from <html xml:lang=".."> - which conflicts with my servlet session approach - Is there something I can do about that? I don't want to create / generate different XForms for each locale...
>>
>>
>> Here is what I did:
>>
>> 1.
>> Define an instance for resources:
>> <xf:instance id="resources"
>> src="resourcesForLanguage.jsp" />
>>
>> resourcesForLanguage.jsp reads the locale from the servlet session (defined somewhere in our application) and returns the respective resource XML for that language.
>>
>> 2.
>> bind the resource instance to a variable:
>>
>> <xxf:variable
>> name="resources"
>> select="instance('resources')" />
>>
>> 3.
>> use the resources:
>>
>> <xf:output value="$resources/title" />
>>
>>
>> Thanks again
>> Baschir
>>
>>
>> Erik Bruchez schrieb:
>>
>> Baschir,
>>
>> Form Runner does something like this already: you can switch locale
>> from the UI, and that is stored into the user's session and picked as
>> default the next time the user loads a page. There is no persistence
>> of that preference yet but that could be added.
>>
>> Form runner reads the locale (in fact here just the language)
>> preference into an instance, and then uses that instance to load the
>> resources specific to that locale (e.g. "en" or "fr"). All localizable
>> resources in the form point to that resources instance.
>>
>> I can't say that this is trivial but not so bad either. Here is the
>> model Form Runner uses:
>>
>>
http://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/blob/master/src/resources/apps/fr/i18n/resources-model.xml>>
>> -Erik
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Baschir Jaghoori
>> <
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>>
>> Dear Orbeon Community,
>>
>> I am evaluating Orbeon and currently trying to find out how to handle l10n.
>> I know that I can:
>> - statically configure formatting app-wide using properties-xforms.xml
>> - including localized, static text using xforms instances for the resources
>>
>> What I want to do is to configure l10n at runtime and per servlet session
>> (the one from properties-xforms.xml)...
>>
>> btw, I am working in a separate deployment scenario with my XForm included
>> (jsp:include) inside a JSP application
>>
>> How I think it should work:
>> - user logs in and chooses his locale (in JSP)
>> - JSP puts some "locale" attribute inside the servlet session / sets the
>> locale and or formatting for Orbeon programmatically for this servlet
>> session
>> - Orbeon should now render the XForm in the user's locale
>>
>> This way I would not have to consider the users locale in my XForms...
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Baschir
>>
>>
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