Hi, On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:12 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks, Raluca,
Raluca Stavro wrote:
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Raluca Stavro <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:38 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. <[email protected]> wrote: Hi,
You can use translations (See http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/InternationalizingApplicat...). For class properties, the translation format is like this:
ClassSpaceBane.ClassDocName_propertyName=A_Translation_Text
ClassSpaceName.ClassDocName_propertyName=A_Translation_Text
I'm in fact using this method in a rather simple application we have created, but whereas it is rather simple to edit and fill-in properties in a given instantiate class, it is not so "straight" to use the method we talk about here to the same. For instance, consider this (awful, but it could be useful to illustrate the discussion) model...
http://ftp.ebiotic.net/onPdr/pescaderiasDataModel.png
I've implemented it by using Documents to instantiate User and Species classes. Species classes has two properties that hold translations of its name. If I manage to get a new translation, I do need to add a new property to this class. Or to instruct translators to edit the translations document and fill in the property the name of the variable in the format you have told before. I do prefer not to have people to tweak with this kind of "raw" XWiki documents.
Could it be possible to create a new class for each name to be translated and instatiate it such many times as different languages a given name is translated to? This class will have two properties: Language Code and Translation. WDYT?
I think all I have to do is to understand how http://l10n.xwiki.org works! But I think this is a bit far from my capabilities rigth now! As stated in some other message, any entry-level help will be welcome!
See this document in order to learn the basics of the translations module: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/I18N . A trick to solve your problem would be to have a single 'name' property for the 'Species' class. Let's say that you attached an object of type 'YourSpace.Species' class to a document named 'YourSpace.DocName'. You set the value of the 'name' property to 'sp_name_key' (use a key in order to be able to use translations based on it). Edit the document in wiki mode and write: {{velocity}} #set($thisDocSpeciesNameKey = $doc.getObject('YourSpace.Species').getProperty('name').value) ## $thisDocSpeciesNameKey value is 'sp_name_key' $msg.get("$!thisDocSpeciesNameKey") {{/velocity}} ## save the document In the translations document, for the 'en' version you write the key & value like this: sp_name_key=my EN sp name ## save the document For the 'fr' version, you write this: sp_name_key=my FR sp name ## save the document Now, if you go to .../view/YourSpace/DocName (your document in 'view' mode), by changing the language you will see that the displayed name is different for each language. Raluca.
Thanks!
-- Ricardo RodrÃguez CTO eBioTIC. Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems
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