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Asked: 2026-05-24T12:24:23+00:00

This question is for someone hopefully with experience in what I’m trying to accomplish.

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This question is for someone hopefully with experience in what I’m trying to accomplish.

GOAL:

I have a webform with several drop-down-lists, in English, developed on ASP.NET.

  • User 1: Select their desired options, then submits the English values to the SQL Server database.
  • User 2: Then chooses a language in which to view a printable version of the form. The English values then get translated to the selected language for printing (presumably via some XML files for extensibility).

Is using XML files for translation a good approach, or is their a better solution?

  • If this is a good approach, any suggestions on how to implement it?
  • If this is a bad approach, what is the best way?
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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming items are unique for each dropdown. I think you need only 3 tables. 

    * for the dropdowns (dropdownid, name)
* for the dropdown items (dropdownitemid, dropdownid)
* for the translated items. (id, dropdownitemid, text, culturecode)

    As for the locale i would a culturecode instead of separate table. Eeach HttpRequest comes with a cultureinfo that is set to the user’s browser language. something like ‘en-US’. Using this code in your table with let you effectivly select the right language.

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