I18n

Internationalization (I18n) is the last feature I'm going to talk about in this article.  I18n in XT is very straight-forward: Any text between <xt:intl></xt:intl> tags is passed to the Sitellite intl_get() function, which returns the same text translated into the appropriate language (see the inc/lang folder for the translation files, and the I18n class in SAF as well).

Another convenient feature of XT's <xt:intl> tag is that it actually replaces the text with the appropriate translation and also wraps the translation in a <span></span> tag with the appropriate lang="" and xml:lang="" attributes.  For example:

<xt:intl>Hello</xt:intl>

Might translate into French as:

<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Bonjour</span>

And there you have it, instant multi-lingual capabilities.  To see this in action, adjust your browser settings to prefer French over English, and Sitellite will automatically adjust upon refreshing your browser window.

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