[lxml-dev] XML Documents & I18N (the way Cocoon does it)

[Alexis Georges]

Hello everyone,

I am maintaining a multilingual website which works with XML, XSLT to  
generate XHTML.

I am working with Apache Cocoon (http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/) using  
(among other things) their I18NTransformer. Basically I can use  
elements in the I18N (http://apache.org/cocoon/i18n/2.1) namespace,  
and then tell Cocoon to apply the I18NTransfomer to the document; this  
replaces the I18N elements with a localized value (eg. a formatted  
date/number, a translated label/attribute, etc...).

I have been looking at lxml a little bit to see if I could move to a  
Python-based framework for the website. I am not quite sure how to go  
about the I18N part though.

Using the Babel library (http://babel.edgewall.org/) along with  
request headers to generate localized data, I have everything I need.  
What is missing is the "parser" for the I18N elements. All I can think  
of right now is to implement a SAX parser, the way Cocoon does (in  
Java).

Does anyone have suggestions? Am I making this too complicated?

Thanks!

Alexis
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