Multilingual website, texts in external JavaScript problem

I need to create a multilingual website and my framework already gives me
that facility. However, I also use JavaScript quite extensively and since
XHTML 1.0 Strict doesn't allow inline script, I must use external .js file.
The problem is in these scripts, there are strings that needs to be
translated as well. How can I make PHP parse these scripts as well? Or are
there alternative approaches?

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Re: Multilingual website, texts in external JavaScriptproblem

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On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:04 -0800, leledumbo wrote:

> I need to create a multilingual website and my framework already gives me
> that facility. However, I also use JavaScript quite extensively and since
> XHTML 1.0 Strict doesn't allow inline script, I must use external .js file.
> The problem is in these scripts, there are strings that needs to be
> translated as well. How can I make PHP parse these scripts as well? Or are
> there alternative approaches?
>
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You could either use several different Javascript files to hold the
language translations and just those as variables, and then in the main
Javascript use the variables rather than the actual words. Or you could
store all the translations into a Javascript array and refer to the
specific array element you need to output

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk



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Re: Multilingual website, texts in external JavaScript problem

leledumbo wrote:
> I need to create a multilingual website and my framework already gives me
> that facility. However, I also use JavaScript quite extensively and since
> XHTML 1.0 Strict doesn't allow inline script, I must use external .js file.
> The problem is in these scripts, there are strings that needs to be
> translated as well. How can I make PHP parse these scripts as well? Or are
> there alternative approaches?
>

I don't see why you can't use inline script in XHTML 1.0 Strict: just put the
script in CDATA sections, like



That seems to validate fine in XHTML 1.0 Strict for me...


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Re: Multilingual website, texts in external JavaScript problem

On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:04 AM, leledumbo
wrote:

>
> I need to create a multilingual website and my framework already
> gives me
> that facility. However, I also use JavaScript quite extensively and
> since
> XHTML 1.0 Strict doesn't allow inline script, I must use
> external .js file.
> The problem is in these scripts, there are strings that needs to be
> translated as well. How can I make PHP parse these scripts as well?
> Or are
> there alternative approaches?
>
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I use a standard error code ( error.2510 ) treating it as the js array
key, and then call the correct language file with translated value

Bastien

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Re: Multilingual website, texts in external JavaScriptproblem

> I don't see why you can't use inline script in XHTML 1.0 Strict

Because I don't know about CDATA, thanks.
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Re: Multilingual website, texts in external JavaScriptproblem

leledumbo wrote:
>> I don't see why you can't use inline script in XHTML 1.0 Strict
>
> Because I don't know about CDATA, thanks.

Glad to be of service!
As another regular contributor to this list often points out, there's always
something new to learn :)

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