[mapserver-users] Re: mapserver and i18n

[Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH]

Would it be better to make then available for variable substitution?

"gml_ID_alias" "%GML_ID_NO%" ##### must be i18n
"gml_NAME_alias" "%GML_NAME_ALIAS%" ##### must be i18n


Mike


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Michael Smith
US Army Corps of Engineers
Remote Sensing/GIS Center
Hanover, NH 




On 10/7/10 9:14 AM, "Stephen Woodbridge" <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure that there is any reason that this:
>   could not be coded like:
> 
>       "gml_ID_alias" "Number" ##### must be i18n
>       "gml_NAME_alias" "Name" ##### must be i18n
> 
> could not be coded like:
> 
>       "gml_ID_alias_en_US" "Number" ##### must be i18n
>       "gml_NAME_alias_en_US" "Name" ##### must be i18n
>       "gml_ID_alias_fr" "...." ##### must be i18n
>       "gml_NAME_alias_fr" "...." ##### must be i18n
>       "gml_ID_alias_es" "...." ##### must be i18n
>       "gml_NAME_alias_es" "...." ##### must be i18n
> 
> if someone wanted to make a change to mapserver to support it. I hate
> the idea of having multiple mapfiles for the same map. It is a huge cost
> to build and maintain and test them if you have to make changes or
> update them.
> 
> -Steve W
> 
> On 10/7/2010 4:06 AM, teeschke wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Michael,
>> 
>> thats a realy good idea for the attributes of the geodata. But what about
>> 
>> LAYER
>>     NAME 'my_highway_layer'
>>     TYPE LINE
>>     DATA "geom from data where lang='%lang%'"
>>     METADATA
>>      "ows_title" "highways" ##### must be i18n
>>      "ows_group_title" "Infrastructure" ##### must be i18n
>>      "wms_feature_info_mime_type" "text/html"
>>      "wms_server_version" "1.1.1"
>>      "wms_format" "image/png"
>>      "wms_exceptions_format" "application/vnd.ogc.se_xml"
>>      "gml_featureid" "ID"
>>      "gml_include_items" "ID,NAME"
>>      "gml_ID_alias" "Number" ##### must be i18n
>>      "gml_NAME_alias" "Name" ##### must be i18n
>>    END #METADATA
>>    CLASS
>>       NAME 'good'  ##### must be i18n
>>       COLOR 0 255 0
>>     END  # CLASS
>>    CLASS
>>      NAME 'bad'  ##### must be i18n
>>      COLOR 255 0 0
>>    END #CLASS
>> END # LAYER
>> 
>> I think the only solution is to provide one mapfile for each language.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot and regards,
>> Daniel
> 
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