A translatable website

25 Nov 2005 4:57 AM

Bob

I want to make my website translatable in different spoken languages, such
as English and French. I'm thinking of storing each display string in one
XML file:

<string00000001>
    <english>Hello</english>
    <french>Bonjour</french>
    <spanish>...</spanish>
    <japanese>...</japanese>
</string00000001>
<string00000002>
    <english>Goodbye</english>
    <french>Au revoir</french>
    <spanish>...</spanish>
    <japanese>...</japanese>
</string00000002>
....

Suppose there are 50,000 such strings in the XML, would there be any speed
concerns in retrieving these strings for display on the website?

25 Nov 2005 5:10 AM

Santhi Maadhaven

Bob,

Keep specific .xml file for each language.For maintinance purpose
it will be good.Bcos in future if you want to change some specific string for
one particular language ,you need to search string,language.Instead if you
keep seperate file,it will easy for u to change. And also if you have big xml
file ,surely it will take time to load the xml file which contains more data.

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"Bob" wrote:

> I want to make my website translatable in different spoken languages, such
> as English and French. I'm thinking of storing each display string in one
> XML file:
>
> <string00000001>
>     <english>Hello</english>
>     <french>Bonjour</french>
>     <spanish>...</spanish>
>     <japanese>...</japanese>
> </string00000001>
> <string00000002>
>     <english>Goodbye</english>
>     <french>Au revoir</french>
>     <spanish>...</spanish>
>     <japanese>...</japanese>
> </string00000002>
> ....
>
> Suppose there are 50,000 such strings in the XML, would there be any speed
> concerns in retrieving these strings for display on the website?
>
>
>

25 Nov 2005 8:11 AM

serge calderara

For my opinion satelite assmblies would be the best solution

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"Santhi Maadhaven" wrote:

> Bob,
>
>           Keep specific .xml file for each language.For maintinance purpose
> it will be good.Bcos in future if you want to change some specific string for
> one particular language ,you need to search string,language.Instead if you
> keep seperate file,it will easy for u to change. And also if you have big xml
> file ,surely it will take time to load the xml file which contains more data.
>
> "Bob" wrote:
>
> > I want to make my website translatable in different spoken languages, such
> > as English and French. I'm thinking of storing each display string in one
> > XML file:
> >
> > <string00000001>
> >     <english>Hello</english>
> >     <french>Bonjour</french>
> >     <spanish>...</spanish>
> >     <japanese>...</japanese>
> > </string00000001>
> > <string00000002>
> >     <english>Goodbye</english>
> >     <french>Au revoir</french>
> >     <spanish>...</spanish>
> >     <japanese>...</japanese>
> > </string00000002>
> > ....
> >
> > Suppose there are 50,000 such strings in the XML, would there be any speed
> > concerns in retrieving these strings for display on the website?
> >
> >
> >

25 Nov 2005 11:11 AM

Mark Rae

"Bob" <spamfree@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:e%23ZW3rX8FHA.3984@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

> I'm thinking of storing each display string in one XML file:

Don't...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GEUA,GEUA:2005-45,GEUA:en&q=%22ASP%2ENET%22+%22resource+file%22+multi+language

25 Nov 2005 11:13 AM

Mats Lycken

Read this short tutorial on how to do it in ASP.NET 2.0

http://www.pcquest.com/content/coding/2004/104063001.asp

Best regards,
Mats

Bob wrote:
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> I want to make my website translatable in different spoken languages, such
> as English and French. I'm thinking of storing each display string in one
> XML file:
>
> <string00000001>
>     <english>Hello</english>
>     <french>Bonjour</french>
>     <spanish>...</spanish>
>     <japanese>...</japanese>
> </string00000001>
> <string00000002>
>     <english>Goodbye</english>
>     <french>Au revoir</french>
>     <spanish>...</spanish>
>     <japanese>...</japanese>
> </string00000002>
> ...
>
> Suppose there are 50,000 such strings in the XML, would there be any speed
> concerns in retrieving these strings for display on the website?
>
>