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Re: [EP-tech] Translations and xpages

Yes. I made that decision and nobody appears to have undone it.

The design you suggest would make your life easier at a significantly
increased complexity for the one-language repositories which are the
bulk of instances of EPrints.

It's not perfect, but I think it was the right trade off.

On 02/04/2019 12:26, Dennis Müller via Eprints-tech wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> is there a sepcific reason why every language gets to have its own xpage
> files with hardcoded text instead of having one central file containing
> phrase references which could then be placed in the respective lang
> directory?
>
> Example:
>
> Currently we're having
> - eprints3/archives/archivename/cfg/lang/en/static/help.xpage
> - eprints3/archives/archivename/cfg/lang/de/static/help.xpage
> - eprints3/archives/archivename/cfg/lang/anyotherlang/static/help.xpage
> that all provide structure and translation for the help page. If we were
> to redesign the help page, we would have to change all the above files
> accordingly.
>
> So instead, couldn't we have only one file at
> eprints3/archives/archivename/cfg/static/help.xpage that provides the
> structure and contains phrase refs (instead of "hard" text) that would
> be provided from
> - eprints3/archives/archivename/cfg/lang/en/phrases/help.xml
> - eprints3/archives/archivename/cfg/lang/de/phrases/help.xml
> - eprints3/archives/archivename/cfg/lang/anyotherlang/phrases/help.xml?
>
> This way, structural changes would apply to all languages at once,
> improving maintainability. The same goes for all plugins providing some
> sort of static pages.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Best regards
> Dennis

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