You're right on track.  Last step is to take the .wixout (should have been 
named ".wixmsi" to match the other things but .wixout came first) and feed it 
back into light.exe.  Light will finish processing the .wixout into MSI.  Is 
that detailed enough or am I missing a step?

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fairweather, 
James
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 13:12
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Building localized versions of an installer

Many of our companies' products are localized into several languages.  To build 
the an installer to handle this, we first build a "neutral" MSI, then for each 
culture, we build an MSI, then use msitran to build a transform, and finally 
msidb to merge the transform back to the neutral MSI.  This works, but it's 
really slow because of all the file copying and cabinet building.  The fileset 
is the same for all cultures, so it would be really handy if there were a way 
to tell light to not build the cabinet file (after the first one).  There is a 
-reusecab option, but it's still pretty slow (I think due to a lot of file 
copying), and it sometimes crashes on large filesets.

The approach we are exploring is to use the XML format (-xo option to light), 
then use the torch tool to build the transform from that.  While this is great 
from a speed point of view, I don't see a way of getting from the XML format 
back to MSI/MST.  Am I missing something, or has that simply not been 
implemented to date?

James Fairweather
Lead developer and support engineer
Core Team
604.456.3911 (x13911)
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