Re: [stellation-res] String Internationalization

["Rodolfo M.Raya" <rmraya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:43, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> > May I suggest that you store strings in an XML file?. Maybe using
> something like:
> >
> > <resource id="filemenu">
> >   <string xml:lang="en-us">File</string>
> >   <string xml:lang="es">Archivos</string>
> >   <string xml:lang="fr">Fichier</string>
> > </resource>
> >
> > This can help in the future with the localization process.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rodolfo
> >
> > --
> I am reluctant to use XML for the internal persistent storage because of
> performance issues. Management of localized strings has been identified by
> the Eclipse team as a performance problem area so I was planning to use an
> optimized internal persistent layout. I think that the import/export
> facilities should be capable of putting the internal storage into XML
> format. In fact I would make this an extension point so that different XML
> layouts could be generated to meet the needs of different tools.

Hi Jonathan,

If you provide the extension points to export/import strings then we can
write the tools to handle XML formats. Don't worry about this.

Regards,
Rodolfo
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Rodolfo M.Raya <rmraya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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