multilingual web sites

[sk...@tripod.com]

Hi,

I'm a software engineer and am looking
for ways to make the internationalization of our web site
more managable. Currently we maintain seperate html
documents for each lanaguage. Since the layout of the documents
is very similar (just the displayed text
differs in language) I figured there must be a mechanism
for maintaining a single html document and generating the
translated html documents from this single document. I'm
thinking of using xml & xslt as a possible solution. Has
anyone used similar solutions ?
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on this issue
or if someone could point me to other resources.
Something with examples would be great.

I'm envisioning a solution such as:

an xml file with the following:
<pagetitle>MY PAGE TITLE IN ENGLISH<pagetitle>

which would be translated into:
<pagetitle>MY PAGE TITLE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE<pagetitle>

and an XSL (or XSLT) file which would take this XML file and translate
it into and HTML page.

We have hundreds of HTML pages and it would be awsome if there
was a tool out there that could make something like this easier for us
(i.e. something that could take our HTML & split it up into XSLT & XML).

I've been looking into Cocoon and, from what I undertand, it's a tool
for putting XML & XSL together (the most common common use being
the generation of HTML). So it's something I could use for the purpose
mentioned above. However, I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to
seperate HTML into XML & XSLT where the XML contains only user
displayed text which is to be translated.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance :-)
-Sher

Re: multilingual web sites

[Donald Ball <ba...@webslingerZ.com>]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 skhurshid@tripod.com wrote:

> We have hundreds of HTML pages and it would be awsome if there
> was a tool out there that could make something like this easier for us
> (i.e. something that could take our HTML & split it up into XSLT & XML).

look at xsplit.

- donald