Re: HTML::Template and Locale::Maketext
Hugues de Mazancourt <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.html-template |
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Hi,
Just about <TMPL_xxx > tags in the template file: don't forget that you
can use H::T's 'filter' option and thus define your own syntax.
Personally, I've turned all the <TMPL_x > into a {%... %} notation, so
that '<TMPL_VAR NAME="foo">' now reads '{%VAR NAME="foo"%}' in my
templates. This works in Dreamweaver (at least a my translator's
version).
As I suggested, you can use this kind of filter to "hide" calls to
maketext (or whatever localisation method) into a more web-designer
friendly way. For example you could use {{ ... }} to hide <TMPL_VAR
EXPR=maketext('...')>. This could yield to:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>{{Hello, world!}}></title>
</head>
<body>
<b>{{Hello, world!}}></b>
<p>{{Welcome to this website.}}></p>
<!-- We could use H::T variables to have things like this : -->
<p>{{We have [quant,_1,visitor] today,, visitor_count}}></p> </body>
</html>
(definition of the filter is left as an exercise to the reader ;-)
A a side effect, this can help the designer keep in mind that all text
chunks will be localised independently, so that he/she should avoid
things like:
<TR>
<TD>{{Do you want}}</TD>
<TD>{{to}}
<select name="action"><option value="del">{{delete}}</option><option
value="keep">{{keep}}</option></select>
</TD>
<TR>
Where "to" would have to be translated using some unambiguous
correspondence which doesn't exist for every languages (at least for
French, this "to" would disappear - in other contexts, not).
Best,
Hugues
PS: I know that this doesn't solve the cache issue, as template is
re-evaluated for every display, so that you should mix this approach
with Mark's caching modifications.
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