Configure languages for document creation and localization
The languages.xml file defines the list of languages managed in IXIA CCMS for both authoring and localization.
In the languages.xml file, you define the list of languages supported by IXIA CCMS for authoring and localization. You can specify which languages are used in the Authoring cycle and which are intended for the Localization cycle. Of the languages used in the Authoring cycle, you can also define one as the default language.
<languages>
element is
the root element into which all the languages are defined. Each language is
specified individually using a <language>
element nested in the root element. For each <language>
element, you specify the following attributes: -
groups
: specifies the language group for the language, as defined in the ISO-639-5 standard. This attribute is used to group languages; for example, it is used in the Language Selection dialog box of the Project Management view. -
name
: specifies the name of the language as it will appear in views and dialog boxes. -
authoring
: a value of "true" specifies that the language is part of the Authoring cycle and a value of "false" specifies that the language is part of the Localization cycle. Languages with theauthoring
attribute set to "true" are displayed in the list of options in the dialog boxes used to create objects.
Within the <language>
element, you add a <code>
element for each
standard used for the language code and define value for the code; for example
"en-us" for American English. The language code value is the value given to the
xsl:lang attribute in objects that are authored in or translated to the language. On
each <code>
element, you also define a
type
attribute to specify the standard used
(ISO-639-1 or ISO-639-2) for the language code.
For example:
<languages>
<language groups="Indo-European" name="English" authoring="true">
<code type="ISO-639-1">en-us</code>
<code type="ISO-639-2/B">en-us</code>
</language>
</languages>
Once you have defined the authoring languages (those with the
authoring
attribute set to "true"), you can
define which one is the default authoring language. The specified language will be
automatically selected in the dialog boxes used to create objects such as the
Create Topic dialog box. The default
authoring language is set as an attribute on the root element. On the <languages>
element, you add a default
attribute with the value being the name of one
of the authoring languages.
If you do not set the default
attribute on the root element, the IXIA CCMS automatically uses the first language in the list
whose name contains the word "English" as the default authoring language.
If you do not set the authoring
attribute on the <language>
element for each
language, the CCMS handles them
as if their authoring
attributes were set to
"true".
Once the languages are defined and the IXIA CCMS Desktop instances are synchronized with the Content Store, all
the languages (regardless of how the authoring
attribute is set) will appear in the Languages pane in the Search view.
For example, the following languages.xml file configures English, French, German, Japanese, and
Chinese as available. The default
attribute on the
root element defines that English is the default language. The authoring attribute
defines that only English and French are authoring languages.
<languages default="English">
<language groups="Indo-European" name="English" authoring="true">
<code type="ISO-639-1">en-us</code>
<code type="ISO-639-2/B">en-us</code>
</language>
<language groups="Indo-European" name="French" authoring="true">
<code type="ISO-639-1">fr-fr</code>
<code type="ISO-639-2/B">fr-fr</code>
</language>
<language groups="Indo-European" name="German" authoring="false">
<code type="ISO-639-1">de-de</code>
<code type="ISO-639-2/B">de-de</code>
</language>
<language groups="Altaic" name="Japanese" authoring="false">
<code type="ISO-639-1">ja-jp</code>
<code type="ISO-639-2/B">ja-jp</code>
</language>
<language groups="Sino-Tibetan" name="Chinese (Simplified)" authoring="false">
<code type="ISO-639-1">zh-cn</code>
<code type="ISO-639-2/B">zh-cn</code>
</language>
</languages>
Using this example, the dialog boxes used to create objects would only offer English and French as options rather than the entire list of configured languages and English would be selected by default.