> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Germuska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 8:04 AM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Internationalizing large amounts of text
>
>
> At 11:24 AM -0300 2002/07/31, Steven Banks wrote:
> >I have been asked to convert some static html pages to jsp pages
> >using Struts. These pages include several very large paragraphs,
> >like important notices and privacy statements.
> >
> >Should all this text be put into the applicationResource.properties
> >file? Is it acceptable to have the appropriately internationalized
> >static html text included in the page using an equals tag to
> >determine which language version to include.
>
> You could do it that way, but I think it would become a management
> headache. While I've used properties files for a few multi-line
> messages, the fact that they are line-oriented means you have to be
> careful to maintain line-continuation characters (\) at the end of
> each line in your message. If you want them to be editable by
> non-programmers, those are the kinds of details they often overlook.
One way of avoiding the headache is to put the longer chunks of text into
their own properties file, and/or use a tool like RBManager to edit them.
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/rbmanager
>
> If you're using Struts 1.1 you might consider implementing your own
> Message Resources which doesn't have to use a properties file to get
> its data. Your version, for example, might look up a text file (or
> HTML fragment) by constructing a path based on the language and the
> message key.
You can do this in Struts 1.0.x as well. You configure it by specifying the
'factory' init-param in your web.xml file. See:
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/doc-1.0.2/api/org/apache/struts/action/Acti
onServlet.html
In Struts 1.1, it's configured in struts-config.xml instead.
--
Martin Cooper
>
> If you're not using Struts 1.1, you might consider writing your own
> custom tag to do something similar. Writing custom tags is fairly
> easy, although I found Sun's documentation a little unclear --
> fortunately, you have several working examples in the Struts source
> code to go from.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Joe
>
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