Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of gsoc2011

Timestamp:

May 26, 2011, 8:55:17 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

stefanl

Comment:

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gsoc2011

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 || ||'''A[[br]] language specific metadata values''' [[br]] "wms_title" "my title" [[br]] "wms_title" "mein titel"||'''B [[br]] language dependent reference data''' [[br]] DATA "shapes/rivers_eng.shp" [[br]] DATA "shapes/rivers_ger.shp"|| ||
-||'''1[[br]]key extension'''||"wms_title_eng" "my title" [[br]] "wms_title_ger" "mein titel"||not appropriate imo|| main question here is: should resolving happen at [[br]] i) write time, i.e. only wms_title goes into mapobject [[br]]  or [[br]] ii) read time, i.e. everything goes into mapobject, [[br]] corresponding key e.g. wms_title_ger is used for reading [[br]] [[br]] mapfile maintainable? validation? ||
-||'''2[[br]] runtime substitution'''||not appropriate imo||DATA "shapes/rivers_%language%.shp" [[br]] with ''language'' being a request parameter or global setting || already [http://mapserver.org/cgi/runsub.html implemented] in mapserver for certain parameters [[br]] [[br]] all required substitution scenarios (parameters) covered?||
+||'''1[[br]]key extension'''||"wms_title_eng" "my title" [[br]] "wms_title_ger" "mein titel"||-|| main question here is: should resolving happen at [[br]] i) write time, i.e. only wms_title goes into mapobject [[br]]  or [[br]] ii) read time, i.e. everything goes into mapobject, [[br]] corresponding key e.g. wms_title_ger is used for reading [[br]] [[br]] mapfile maintainable? validation? ||
+||'''2[[br]] runtime substitution'''||-||DATA "shapes/rivers_%language%.shp" [[br]] with ''language'' being a request parameter or global setting || already [http://mapserver.org/cgi/runsub.html implemented] in mapserver for certain parameters [[br]] [[br]] all required substitution scenarios (parameters) covered?  ||
+||'''3[[br]]  externalization'''||"wms_title" "IDC_TITLE"||DATA "IDC_SHAPES_RIVERS" with external files e.g. [[br]] [[br]] lang.eng [[br]] IDC_TITLE=my title [[br]] IDC_SHAPES_RIVERS=shapes/rivers_eng.shp [[br]](or IDC_SHAPES_RIVERS=shapes/eng/rivers.shp) [[br]] [[br]] lang.ger [[br]] IDC_TITLE=mein titel [[br]] IDC_SHAPES_RIVERS=shapes/rivers_ger.shp [[br]](or IDC_SHAPES_RIVERS=shapes/ger/rivers.shp)|| i think it's the most common way for internationalization  [[br]] and there are many tools available to externalize strings [[br]] [[br]] again the question is: at which time the externalized [[br]] value should be resolved (e.g. while parsing [[br]] mapfile, during msApplySubstitutions, ...)||
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