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.NET Forum / ASP.NET / General / December 2007Extending .NET G11n and L10n
Greetings! I'm interested in extending what's available in the .NET framework with regards to globalization and localization. I've read many articles that discuss extending so that a datasource other than RESX files (Ex: database) can be used, such as this one: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905797.asp Most of these articles use the same idea of key-value pairs - just a different datasource. I was wondering if anyone could provide some insight as to whether it's possible to extend what .NET offers such that content can come from, say, XML files. And not in the key-value sense, but more along the lines of XPath or XQuery? If this is possible, where might there be some good resources targeting .NET 3.5 to help get started? Thanks in advance. Hi, Actually RESX files are XML files anyway. If you wanted to, you could get that info into your own XML format and read it out using XPath etc, but you'd have to write a fair bit of redundant code. The basic premise of RESX's / key-value pairs is that the key is like the placeholder on your page (eg: hello_label) with the value in each data source/resx being the implementation of that key (eg: "hello", "ni hao") etc. It's because of the simplicity of this structure that you don't have to spend time defining your own XML structure. For more info on localization, you can have a look at this post on my blog: http://geekswithblogs.net/dotNETPlayground/archive/2007/11/09/116726.aspx best regards, Andrew You could perhaps keep those keys and have your provider to interpret their meaning as you wish depending what is the value you want to add by using those custom expressions... The localization expression themselves (as well as other expressions) are anyway customizable even though you may want to dive into this only if you really have to : http://aspalliance.com/1113_Creating_a_Custom_ExpressionBuilder_in_ASPNET_20 -- Patrice > Greetings! > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > possible, where might there be some good resources targeting .NET 3.5 > to help get started? Thanks in advance. the most common way of localization with xml is via xslt transformations. see the Xml control. -- bruce (sqlwork.com) > Greetings! > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > possible, where might there be some good resources targeting .NET 3.5 > to help get started? Thanks in advance.
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