[xsl] how to extract text, translate and re-insert it in XHTML

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  it's been a while since i've written anything in XSLT so i'm going
to try to explain what a colleague is trying to do, assuming *i*
understand it.

  1) start with an involved XHTML document
  2) "extract" just those (english) parts that involve translatable
     text, and hand it to a translator
  3) translator translates english to, say, klingon
  4) rebuild original document with klingon content instead of english

as i understand it, the point of the extraction is that no one wants
to burden the translator with all of the XHTML tagging -- the
translator wants to get the text stripped of all the "clutter", at
which point, after translation, someone needs to be able to put the
document back together.

  is this even a reasonable thing to ask?  in order to reassemble the
document, i'm assuming one is going to have to ID every single bit of
text to have a reference to build backwards.

  thoughts on this?  has anyone done something like this?  or are you
all too busy laughing hysterically by now?

rday
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