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To see how to do the actual translations have a look at the "(en-US) Working with template terminologies.pdf " from here: http://engage.dynamicweb-cms.com/Working-with-183.aspx

 Thanks for the reply.
This pdf is great, but the code examples unfortunally only concerns html markup, and not XSLT, which is the problem im having. How do I use the @Translate() notation in XSLT? I have been trying to find information about this, so far without success.

How to do it in XSLT is what is described in the thread you posted...

 yes, I have tried to follow the directions from that site, and keep getting a xslt error, referring to the name used in the code, used to call the template. It says that the name of the template "translate" is unknown..
Can you please take a look at my template, and see whats Im doing wrong?

Hi,

You are missing the translate template which is called each time you need a translation (See the last part of this post)...

Important! If you need to call one translation more than once in your template, you need to make a template for that translation (If anyone knows a better way, please post it here, but this works for me):

Place this each place you need the translation: <xsl:call-template name="ReadMoreAbout" />

Place this just above the template I've included in the bottom of the post:

<xsl:template name="ReadMoreAbout">
    <xsl:call-template name="translate">
        <xsl:with-param name="translationkey" select="'readMoreTitle'" />
          <xsl:with-param name="defaulttranslation" select="'Læs mere om '" />
    </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>


Place this in the bottom of your file:
<!-- The Magic Translation part -->
<xsl:template name="translate">
    <xsl:param name="translationkey" />
    <xsl:param name="defaulttranslation" />
    <xsl:variable name="currentlanguage" select="/Template/GlobalTags/Global.Area.LongLang" />
       
    <!-- here i find the translation needed in the document that we loaded in line 4 -->
    <xsl:variable name="translation" select="$translate/translations/key[@name=$translationkey]/translation[@culture=$currentlanguage]" />
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="string-length($translation) != 0">
            <xsl:value-of select="$translation" />
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-of select="$defaulttranslation" />
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

 That did it! Thanks for your help, all of you :)

Hi Jensen,

I actually use xslt variables instead of templates for all my translations. Found it easier to apply with either {} or xsl:value-of select="".

I don't have any info regading performance though. Would be great if someone did and cared to share :)

nuno