This service gives you the names of the 88 official constellations in different languages.
Select a language for the constellation names. You may also select the Northern or Southern hemisphere. By default both are selected.
The user interface is not very polished, as this is an experimental service under development.
The constellation name data is in a single standalone
XML file.
The xml:lang attribute identifies the translation for a particular
language.
Japanese is a special case, using
ruby markup
(now part of XHTML 1.1).
If there is an alternate-text element with the xml:lang attribute value "ja", the main text
is used as the ruby base and the alternate text is used as the ruby text above it.
The constellation names page is generated by a PHP script that performs an XSL transformation from selected elements in the XML source file into XHTML, using an XSL stylesheet and the PHP XSLT extension.
If you want to create an XHTML page where parts are created by a PHP script, be sure to set 'short_open_tag' to Off in php.ini.
I would rather do this in Java using JSP and servlets, but my web pages are hosted on a server that does not offer Java, only PHP.
Last updated: 2003-10-01
E-mail: Jere dot Kapyaho at iki dot fi