The Internationalization (I18N) Support Java library is the LGPL open-source license developed by Innodata Isogen, Inc. Antenna House made some modifications to the original library and opened this library under the LGPL license according to the LGPL rule.
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The Innodata Isogen Internationalization (I18N) Support Library is a collection of Java classes that provide fundamental services to document processors for localizing and internationalizing the rendered form of XML documents.
The services provided include:
- Language and locale-specific static (“generated”) text strings. Processors simply have to know what database key and language to ask for, the system then returns the appropriate language-specific string. Database keys can be element type names (e.g. “Chapter”) or arbitrary strings (e.g., “#index”).
- Language-specific comparators for doing language and locale-appropriate lexical sorting of strings (for example, with the xsl:sort command through Saxon). The generic “getComparator” functions can be bound to any implementation of the Java Comparator interface. The default Comparator implementation is that provided by the ICU4J package ( http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/).
- Back-of-the-book index configuration management, making it easy to define and use language-specific index grouping and sorting.
- Functionality exposed as XSLT extension functions through Saxon's extension API.
The core functions (I18nService) are processor independent and can be bound to any specific processor through a relatively thin binding layer, as demonstrated by the provided Saxoni18nService class. For example, the I18nService can be bound to Epic Editor through it's Java API, other Java-based XSLT processors, or Java-based user interfaces, or DOM-based XML processors.
