= CookBook - Template tags =

== Easy translation ==

This creates a new tag pair, {{{{% translate %}}}} and {{{{% endtranslate %}}}}
which will translate every string between two backquotes. I made this
because I found the default i18n "trans" tag too bulky.

{{{
#!python
import re
from django.core import template
from django.utils import translation

register = template.Library()
transl = re.compile("`(.*?)`")

class TranslateNode(template.Node):
    def __init__(self, nodelist):
        self.nodelist = nodelist

    def render(self, context):
        output = self.nodelist.render(context)
        return transl.sub(lambda match: translation.gettext(match.group(1)), output)


def do_translate(parser, token):
    nodelist = parser.parse(('endtranslate',))
    parser.delete_first_token()
    return TranslateNode(nodelist)

register.tag('translate', do_translate)
}}}

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Can you explain the difference between:
{{{
{% blocktrans %}
    asd adlkjfjalkdsfj lksajdfl sdkf jslakdfj
    asd adlkjfjalkdsfj lksajdfl sdkf jslakdfj
    asd adlkjfjalkdsfj lksajdfl sdkf jslakdfj
{% endblocktrans %}
}}}

and your method?

{{{
{% translate %}
    `saddasdasd asd ad asd`
    `saddasdasd asd ad asd`
{% endtranslate %}
}}}

Also, your tags are not picked up with {{{make-messages}}} so you must insert them manually into .po files.