Best way to translate languages in multiple XML files in multiple dire

[comdol2]

Hello.

I need to translate English in 300 XML files in 50 directories to French( and other 5 languages ). Yes. This is a kind of multi-dimentional work. I know there is XPATH to make it possible but my situation is that one guy who is not a programmer is able to translate all english to his language whenever he wants. When he finish it, I get that file and rebuild the service and release it. So dealing directly with this xml files is very difficult because he is not a programmer.

I was thinking to make any admin tool to make this but I don't want to do it because there should be a maintenance issue.
I am the only person to handle this one technically and I have a lot of work to do now so I don't want to add any addition burden to me.

So I'm thinking if XML can make it possible to pick a specific line in a external text file(or any other files: py, php, and so on) it would be great.

For example
Let's call the external text file as "Localizer.txt" and XML file as "data.xml"

data.xml :
<calendar>
<month>
<jan>JAN</jan>
<feb>FEB</feb>
<mar>MAR</mar>
......
</month>
</calendar>

Localizer_FR.txt (for franch) :
JAN : Janvier
FEB : Février
MAR : Mars
.....

For January, I want to make XML pick "Janvier" in Localizer_FR.txt automatically according its language setting ( in this case lang=FR )

I know in XML there is a language variable(XPATH) and I can make a similar one
<jan lang="euc-EN">January</jan>
<jan lang="euc-FR">Janvier</jan>
something like that but I don't want this because there are 300 XML files in 50 directories.

I want to maintain language translation in one txt file and make XML see that file.

Please give me any of your advice/suggestion for my situation.

Thanks a lot.

 

[tsuji]

>I want to maintain language translation in one txt file and make XML see that file.
That is not a very clever move. Instead, you should approach like this.
[tt]<paraphrase>I want to maintain language translation in one/mulitple xml document(s) and make XSL see that file(s).</paraphrase>[/tt]

For simple glossary type translation, it is some kind of dictionary or lookup table.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xsltip.html

For paragraph/article type of translation, the approach is basically similar, just direct the paragraph/article to the language-specific uri and make that uri properly xml formed by wrapping the content in a wrapper-root tag. This is an article summarising the logical approaches with (downloadable) samples.

http://www.topxml.com/xsltStylesheets/xslt_multilingual.asp