How to build a static multilanguage site with TT?

danmcb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am making up a website that contains only static pages, using Template Toolkit. Original pages are in Dutch, but an English version is also required. So I will have template pages that look like this:

<p>Ik woon in Antwerpen.</p>
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I need an easy way to rip these strings out of the xhtml-like templates (no worries if the odd span or b tag gets left in, but paragraphs should be intact), and writes them into a file(s) to be translated. The template also needs to be re-written as (something like) ...

<p>[% _tx(Ik woon in Antwerpen.) %]</p>
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... so that TT can make the relevant substitution at the final pass

Now, I am far from the first to travel this road ... so I don't want to be making any new wheels. Does anyone know where I can borrow some old ones that work well enough?

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Re: How to build a static multilanguage site with TT? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 28, 2008 at 06:37 UTC
Template::Multilingual, Tutorial: Building dynamic multilingual sites withmod_perl and Template Toolkit (Mar 22 2001), i18n with Template-Toolkit	[reply]
Re^2: How to build a static multilanguage site with TT? by danmcb (Monk) on Sep 28, 2009 at 13:52 UTC
I have done this recently. I build the templates with id's instead of text, and then put the text in an excel spreadsheet. Each col is a language. I use CPAN modules to pull the translations out of the spreadsheet and generate the pages. The beauty of doing this in Excel is that you can throw your texts to humans and most of them will be able to cope with this format. I have the code at home, will look it out for you if you wish. It may be a bit gnarly but it is very functional. (Funnily enough, ik woon in Antwerpen ... yes really ...)	[reply]