So far I've been using a home-brewn Perl-in-HTML interpreter to realize multilingual webpages. For example, I'll have URLS like

http://server/de/page.html
http://server/en/page.html

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I then configured mod_rewrite to redirect these to the "true" file and set an environment variable LANG=de (or LANG=en). In my HTML file, I write

bla bla bla
<!en>English page only
<!de>Nur auf der deutschen Seite
<!>This is gonna appear in both versions again again

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Now, I'm looking to reimplement the system using something more standardized, feature-rich and tested (my C code realizing this interpreter is a mess...). I'm thinking of using Mason. However, I don't want to do lengthy checks like if ($ENV{LANG} eq "en" { ..... The point of the system is to have a short command so that I can freely intermix different languages, making it more easy to translate a webpage.

Would I have to modify Mason's parser to realise concise tags like <!de>, or can someone come up with a nice way to implement something like this more easily?

In reply to Multilingual Mason by crenz

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