Re: Translatable text in tag attributes

Jason wrote:
> Would something like this be feasible:
> 
> <input type="submit" value="Log In" />
> 
> <input type="submit">
> <xar:attr name="value">Log In</xar:attr>
> </input>
Yes. The BL2 compiler already has a <xar:attribute> tag thanks to 
Marcel, but for reasons I've never been able to pin down it seems quite 
delicate. You can see it in action in the 
com.xaraya.core.unstable.tableddl scenario.

I'm less drawn to that form because it opens a new issue: whether or not 
any tag that would have one or more translatable attributes would have 
an open form
> 
> The BL compiler would do the hard work of modifying the elements and attributes,
> but I'm not sure if the translation module would make use of these capabilities
> of the compiler?
I didn't mention the translations module, or more generally any 
translator that would use the current Xaraya scheme, because both such a 
module and the compiler essentially have to do the same thing: traverse 
the template doc tree and pick out things that need translating. The 
former to populate the locale XML files with tokens and their 
translations, and the latter to determine which tokens to look up in 
those files.
At least under the current scheme I'm assuming that if we solve the 
issue in theory we can apply the solution to the translator as well as 
the compiler.