On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 04/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: >> >> We're in the process of creating an updated OpenOffice professional >> services directory, to replace the outdated one that we removed from >> the website a few months ago. > > > I've been looking at doing the same for the "/it" website, with the aim to > obtain a list of Italian consultants. As I see it, this would be a "fork" of > the consultants database, since we would list there only the Italian > consultants (as it used to be) and link to > http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html > for global information. > > The problem is that in this case we will want the output page to appear > under "/it" and take the branding normally applied to the "/it" directory. > > What's the best way to do it? An "svn copy" of "consultants" from "/bizdev" > to "/it" and subsequent customization? This is not so nice, but with version > control it wouldn't be very painful to synchronize relevant changes. Or > shall I need to just put in "/bizdev/consultants" a new file, say > "to-html_it.xsl", that takes a new database, say "consultants_it.xml", and > produces an HTML file in "/it"? The latter option reduces duplication but > adds clutter to "/bizdev/consultants". >
Currently we have no Italian consultants listed here: http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html If we can avoid maintaining separate lists, it is probably best. Here are some things that could be done by using the single consultants.xml and enhancing the XSLT: 1) Produce separate HTML's for different languages, with the table headers translated. (This is already working) 2) We could allow multiple <description> fields per consultant for translations, e.g., <description lang="it">. We could then use the translated versions when we generate locale-specific HTML output files. But there is the complexity of language != country. Currently we're encoding countries that the consultant does business in. In some cases, like Belgium, we cannot make a language assumption based on that. -Rob > Regards, > Andrea.
