Using strings.xml in raw xml resource

Question

I was wondering if it's possible to load resources from strings.xml in raw xml resource. Example:

<root>
<element>@string/res1</element>
<element>@string/res2</element>
<element>@string/res3</element>
</root>

Is this possible?

If it's not possible, if I create a raw xml resource, do I have to provide multiple files for localization purposes?

dmon · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-04 04:59:39Z

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Are you trying to use values declared in strings.xml in a file inside /raw/? Then no, that's not possible. If you want to internationalize your "raw" XMLs you can provide one for each of your supported languages in the appropriate folder (/raw-fr/, /raw-en/, etc). At least that's out of the box.

Alternatively, you can establish a template format and parse the raw XMLs in Java and fetch the appropriate string resource from there instead.

edited Jun 4, 2013 at 4:59

answered Jun 3, 2013 at 23:38

dmon

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4 Comments

input Over a year ago

Can you give an example of the second suggestion?

dmon Over a year ago

<element attribute="{!myString!}">{!myString2!}</element> You'd read the XML then replace all instances of {!*!} with the appropriate string from your resources.

input Over a year ago

Thank you for your reply. Is there any tutorial or example where I can read up on this?

dmon Over a year ago

I'm sure there are some tutorials floating around on general templating, but this seems a bit specific (and non-standard) for android...

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