Multilingual approach

[Azala]

I've been thinking about best approaches to multilingual sites.

What I would prefer would be something like this:

<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf8">
<language>
<menu id="mainMenu">
<menuLink id="1"><a href="test.com">test</a></menuLink>
<menuLink id="2"><a href="test2.com">test2</a></menuLink>
</menu>
<menu id="someSubMenu">
...
</menu>
<section id="mainPage">
<title>text</title>
<text>some<br />text<br />here</text>
</section>
</language>

Now in my PHP code I would love to be able to do:
echo $myLanguage->menu['mainMenu']->menuLink['1'];
echo $myLanguage->section['mainPage']->title;

The problem is parsing this "xml" file into an object that will look like this.

simplexml_load_file doesn't parse this the way I want it, neither does it seem to like "html tags" within the "xml tags".

Anyone got any solutions to this or another simple good way to make multilingual sites where I won't need 1 copy for each language of my webpage 🙂

[leatherback]

I store the bulk of my content in a table pages, which has a language tag to it, and a page number (Not unique here). I have another table which stores the basic things, such as locations and menu links, where the page numbers are unique.

All the other tags I have in an include file, specified as constants. When building the sites, instead of echoing text, I echo the constants. Based on the language I include a specific language tags file, and load different pages from the pages table.