DataSourceLocalization XML tag question

[Blama]

Hi Isomorphic,

it is most likely a silly question, but as the change means much ugly boilerplate work for me, I'll ask it anyway.
I want to i18n my .ds.xml files using the approach from the docs.

There you do:

<field name="itemName">
 <title><fmt:message key="itemTitle"/></title>
</field>

I'm using the XML short form empty tag <field attr1="..." attr2="..." attr3="..." attr4="..."/> for basically all my fields that do not have a validator.
Do I have to rewrite these or is there a way I could do i18n with <field title="i18n_me" ... />?

Best regards
Blama

[Isomorphic]

Sorry, you will need to move the title to a subelement <title>, there is no attribute-based way to use the i18n system for titles.

[Isomorphic]

But definitely hear you on the boilerplate work - I think it's worth a brief search to see if there's an XML tool that'll turn all attributes into subelements for you - odds are good it exists.

[Blama]

Hello,

if anyone is interested, I solved it the following way:

• Eclipse: Set XML line-length to 999 (was 150)
• Rightclick ds folder: Source, Format
• Notepad++ RegEx replace in files for empty tags
  • ^(\t\t<field.*)title="(.*?)"(.*) />
  • \1\3><title>\2</title></field>
• Notepad++ RegEx replace in files for non-empty tags
  • ^(\t\t<field.*)title="(.*?)"(.*)>
  • \1\3><title>\2</title>
• Eclipse: Set XML line-length to 150
• Rightclick ds folder: Source, Format

For me this works as expected which can be seen the diff.

Next is to collect a list of used title-contents again with RegExp and Notepad++.

Best regards
Blama