skel prefix naming / Page id changing

[Frederick Ros]

William Morgan wrote :
| I'm very interested to see what you come up with. Having a nice way for
| Hobix to do multi-lingual blogs would be great.

OK. I had a look last night. First of all be indulgent, as I had a
couple of beer in me at this time ;)

My purpose was the following: from a single entry, holding content for
let's say 2 languages en and fr, I want to generate 2 versions of the
same blog: one with the en content (located in weblog.link/en) the other
one with the fr content.

My first attempt was to create my own skel_index, skel_entry and so
on. They both return not 1 (Page, entries) couple but 2 (one for each
language).
However this did not work, as in the load_and_validate_entry load the
entry based on the entry id .. which is the same regardless of the
content language.

Then I look at creating 2 directory in the skel directory : en and fr,
each with the index.html.quick, entry.html.quick and so on. However in
this case I would have to explicitly write something like <%
entry.content_en %> or <% entry.content_fr %> in the templates, which
seems not very scalable/nice ;)

So I think that to achieve this I will have to have both a new entry
class, but also a new output plugin which can choose what language to
render based on either the name of the template of the path where it
reside ...

However as I mentioned it, and as I was not quite *humm* let's say clear
, I'd like to know if someone as another better idea on this ...


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Frederick Ros aka Sleeper -- sleeper at jabber.org

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