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Posted: Thu Aug 23rd, 2007 06:04 pm

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Hello,

I have an xml-file that is an embedded resource in a .NET assembly. I want to translate this resource (by using Sisulizer) and I also want to have it embedded into the generated satellite assemblies. Is that possible?

Regards

Andreas Sörenby

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Posted: Fri Aug 24th, 2007 12:42 am

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It is possible but currently it is a bit complicated. You have to add two sources to a Sisulizer project.

First source is the .NET project. Sisulizer shows the XML resource as one single text. You can translate it manually but it is very error prone. It is better that you add another source. The XML file itself and you use Sisulizer's XML localization to tranlate it. Then you add the data of the localized XML file to the .NET projects's cell. See the picture. Finalyl you build your project again. Now The resource contains the same data as the localized XML file.

In the near future we will add XML scaning to .NET scanner so you do not have to do these steps any more but Sisulizer will handle the XML resource as a XML data and uses XML editor for that.

Jaakko

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Posted: Sun Sep 16th, 2007 02:38 am

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1.6.7 has this feature. you can download it

http://www.sisulizer.com/downloads.shtml

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Posted: Wed Oct 10th, 2007 12:06 pm

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I have an embedded XML file in my C#-project, but Sisulizer does not recognize it (I am running 1.6.13). Do I need to tag the XML-file somehow to ensure that Sisulizer includes it in the project?

Attached image is from an example project that I set up.

Regards,

Fredrik

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Posted: Fri Oct 12th, 2007 06:43 am

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The current implementation works only when .resx data item contains XML data. In your case you have an XML file included to Visual Studion project. I am right?

Sisulizer can yet not localize those files. What kind of data your XML file contains and what is the purpose of it?

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Posted: Fri Oct 12th, 2007 06:45 am

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It seems that you have added the XML file as an embedded resource. I will implement this.

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Posted: Fri Oct 12th, 2007 07:27 am

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Jaakko.Salmenius wrote: The current implementation works only when .resx data item contains XML data. In your case you have an XML file included to Visual Studion project. I am right?

Sisulizer can yet not localize those files. What kind of data your XML file contains and what is the purpose of it?

Jaakko

Yes, I have included the XML file to the VS2005-project as an embedded file. The file contains information about the assembly, ie name of view class etc.

This information is then read by an executable that can dynamically load different views. It uses the information to instantiate the view class and set up menu structure etc. Certain texts in this setup needs to be translatable, such as menu choices and window titles.

Posted: Fri Oct 12th, 2007 07:30 am

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Thank you. I am implementing the feature now and it will be in 1.6.14 that will come out next week.

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Posted: Sun Oct 14th, 2007 04:01 am

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Actually this feature is already in Sisulizer. By default Sisulizer threats XML data in the .resx file as plain text (just like in your screenshot). However you can make Sisulizer to scan the data as XML.

1) Right click the left side of the row (gray aread) and choose Set Format | XML
(see screenshot)

2) An XML dalog shows up and you can select the elements that you want to localize.

3) Press OK and Sisulizer promts for rescan. Press OK.

Now Sisulizer scans that element of .resx as XML instead of plain text.

Unfortunately there was a bug in the build process and localized .resx files did not contain translated XML elements. I fixed this in 1.6.14 that will come out in few days.

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Posted: Fri Oct 19th, 2007 03:04 pm

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My problem is that I don't have the XML that I want to localize as a string in a .resx-file, I have the XML-file "as-is" embedded into the project. Sisulizer does not recognize my XML-file as a file that can be localized.

See screenshots. The only localizable resource Sisulizer recognizes is the Form1.Text resource.

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Posted: Mon Oct 22nd, 2007 03:57 am

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OK. I got this and I am working on it.

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Posted: Wed Oct 24th, 2007 03:43 am

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I implemented scanning on plain XML resource (and also image and HTML resources) in 1.6.14.

Can you send me a piece of code that you use to access the resources. This help me to figure out what kind of name to give the localized XML file.

You can attached the code here or send it to me to

support (at) sisulizer.fi

Jaakko

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Posted: Wed Oct 24th, 2007 11:40 am

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Hi!

A little background: Most of the code we have for loading localized strings and reading this embedded XML-file that we use is written by a former colleague of mine that has since left our company. I really haven't looked into how these things works before.

We have previously been using a home made translator written by the same colleague that handled embedded XML-files so I assumed that it was simple.

What I have now found is that our previous translator created a fake .resx-file and embedded the XML-file into that in the satellite assembly.

Example:

File NG_LDS.xml is embedded into the project. For the satellite assembly a resource file named NG_LDS.xml.resx is created with one entry called NG_LDS.xml containing the contents of the XML-file.

So the code for accessing the resource is something like this:

public string GetXMLResource(string xmlFile, string selectedUserCulture)
{
   string fullName = string.Empty;
   System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture =
      new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(selectedUserCulture);

   System.Reflection.Assembly assembly =
      System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();

   // Find the full name of our XML file resource
   foreach (string name in assembly.GetManifestResourceNames())
   if (0 <= name.IndexOf(xmlFile))
   {
      fullName = name;
      break;
   }

   System.Resources.ResourceManager rm =
       new System.Resources.ResourceManager(fullName, assembly);

   try
   {
   // Try to read the localized XML-file
      return (string)rm.GetObject(xmlFile, culture);
   }

   catch (Exception)
   {}

   // We couldn't read the localized XML-file
   // Fall back to the original stream
   Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(fullName);
   StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(stream);
   return sr.ReadToEnd();

}

I don't know if this is the correct way to do this... I think that perhaps better would be to add the embedded resource with the same name in the satellite assembly and access it through something like:

  // More checks probably needed to see that we actually get a satellite assembly
// and a valid stream.
Stream stream =
      assembly.GetSatelliteAssembly(culture).GetManifestResourceStream(fullName);
   StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(stream);
   return sr.ReadToEnd();

I personally think this second approach is better and it also works with what happens if you embed both NG_LDS.xml and NG_LDS.en.xml in the C# project. In this case the studio will create a satellite assembly in the en catalogue for you with an embedded file named "NG_LDS.xml".

In conclusion:

I think that if you could embed the localized XML file in the satellite assembly with the same name that it has in the main assembly that would be best.

Last edited on Wed Oct 24th, 2007 11:44 am by bennison

Posted: Thu Oct 25th, 2007 01:06 am

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bennison wrote: I think that if you could embed the localized XML file in the satellite assembly with the same name that it has in the main assembly that would be best.

I agree. Basically there are two choices:

1) Use the same name as original

Sample.xml -> Sample.xml

2) Add language part to the name

Sample.xml -> Sample.fi.xml

This would use the same naming convention as .resx files.

I will implement the both. The default is to use the same name as the original (#1)

Jaakko

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Posted: Mon Oct 29th, 2007 09:46 am

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Are you using binary localization (added EXE to SL project) or project localization (added .csproj). It seems that you use project localization. Good. I have now implemented localization of custom resources (XML, HTML and images) when using project localizations. I will implement support for binary localizaiton later this year.

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Posted: Mon Oct 29th, 2007 09:53 am

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Jaakko.Salmenius wrote: Are you using binary localization (added EXE to SL project) or project localization (added .csproj). It seems that you use project localization. Good. I have now implemented localization of custom resources (XML, HTML and images) when using project localizations. I will implement support for binary localizaiton later this year.

Jaakko

We are indeed using project localization.

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