Re: cms-list digest, Vol 1 #721 - 1 msg

How do you manage the translations? Manually keyed or automated? I've 
written something that screen-scrapes Babelfish but I'd rather use 
something more bullet-proof and less kludgy.

-Michael

>>As far as the XML markup goes, how did you manage the multi-language
>>aspect - elements, metadata...?
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>Basic rss/rdf/xml info can be exported in a number of formats, but is
>pretty limited.  This could be expanded so that all elements are
>available in XML, but we haven't done this at the moment.
>
>Presently we have isolated all language specific information into it's
>own language table so that a single article can have a language specific
>title, blurb (abstract), content, keword metadata and description
>metadata.  This allows us to have as many languages in the database as
>the client requires.
>
>Mike
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>

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