Re: [xml] Localizing the validation messages

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:16:52PM -0500, Patrick wrote:
> Our technical customers do not want to see English messages when the
> documents they tag do not conform to the XSD schema defined. The
> tool uses lxml which I understand is a pythonic binding to libxml2.
>
> They want the XML validation messages in their language.
>
> So, not
>
> Element 'b': Element content is not allowed, because the type
> definition is simple.
>
> but, for instance,
>
> Élément 'b' : Pas de contenu d'élément permis, parce que la
> définition de type est simple.
> Elemento 'b': Elemento de contenido no está permitido, ya que la
> definición de tipo es simple.
>
> I believe localization of libxml2 has not been implemented, is that
> still true? How hard would it be to do?

 You can localize on top of libxml2.
The structured error handler should give you everything you need
to implement your own localization.
I'm not sure I want to do this in libxml2, due to dependencies,
portability and the fact that it's a developper toolkit, not the
right level to emit user level messages.

Daniel

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