[OpenAjaxIDE] Fw: Allowing inline message bundles (was "Localization")

[Rich Thompson]

This looks like it will meet our needs nicely ... thanks

Rich 



From:
Jon Ferraiolo/Menlo Park/IBM
To:
Rich Thompson/Watson/IBM
Cc:
<ide at openajax.org>
Date:
08/19/2008 09:19 PM
Subject:
Fw: [OpenAjaxIDE] Allowing inline message bundles (was "Localization")


Hi Rich,
Is this proposal OK with you? At the IDE phone call today, we wanted to 
make sure that this proposal met your needs. If so, I'll add it to the 
spec.

Thanks.
Jon

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Jon Ferraiolo/Menlo Park/IBM at IBMUS 
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[OpenAjaxIDE] Allowing inline message bundles (was "Localization")






There was tentative agreement at Tuesday's phone call to allow the ability 
to include message bundles inline within the metadata content in order to 
address potential network download performance problems. I promised to 
launch email discussion about the technical details.

As a reminder, we have adopted Google Gadget's localization file 
approaches, which they call "message bundles", as documented at: 
http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/i18n.html. We have also adopted 
their file format naming conventions, with names such as "en_us.xml", 
"en_ALL.xml" and "ALL_ALL.xml".

Here is my strawman proposal for how to allow inline message bundles:

(1) We just duplicate the <messagebundle> and <msg> elements from Google 
Gadgets into our grammar. This will allow something like this:

<widget xmlns="http://openajax.org/metadata">
__<messagebundle lang="en_ALL">
____<msg name="hello">Hello</msg>
__</messagebundle>
__<messagebundle lang="fr_ALL">
____<msg name="hello">Bonjour</msg>
__</messagebundle>
</widget>

(2) We add a 'lang' attribute to the <messagebundle> element to indicate 
the language/country for the message bundle. The value of the 'locale' 
attribute matches the file naming convention for the basename for the 
Google Gadgets localization files.

Comments?

Jon

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