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<DIV><SPAN class=435324513-19102004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am considering
writing a small help widget for my application that displays help for all the
widgets I'm using. At the moment it's a very specialized widget that
displays the info I want displayed. I suppose it could be made into
something more dynamic... but that's for another day.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=435324513-19102004><FONT face=Arial size=2>In doing this, I
thought it would be nice to to the language handling of the DBF files to handle
the French vs English help descriptions. The problem here though is that
these dbf files are limited to 256 (or something close) characters.
If I'm mistaken on this, someone please share. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=435324513-19102004><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I'm wondering
is... how hard would it be to use xml files instead? It would be easier
then for me to store translations because there is no limit on characters.
Is there a sample of a parsing function that comes with Chameleon that I could
modify for use in my templates? Ideally it would be nice if all of
Chameleon could handle more than 256 chars in language files, but I understand
such a change would be a large undertaking for the present
time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=435324513-19102004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=435324513-19102004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Liz</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>