Hi raghavendran,

have a look at this: http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/macro-parameters-syntax/advanced-parameter-syntax.

So in order to pass in a language identifier that is e.g. held in the cookie you could do something like this:

<umbraco:Macro langId="[%langid]" Alias="Login" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>

To my knowledge you cannot compile a .Net macro inside Xslt, that just won't work. You could though render another page template which has a .Net control on it, that should work.

Sascha

Hi raghavendran, we do this just putting it into the Session, and a cookie for later - I think this is part of the standard lang.xslt file you are talking about:

<xsl:template name="setlang">
  <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:setSession('lang',$lang)"/>
  <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:setCookie('lang',$lang)"/>
</xsl:template>

That pushes the value of $lang which is set somewhere in the file ;) Then in our language abstraction class we have the following function:

private static int langid()
{
  if (_languageCodes == null)
  {
    Language[] languages = Language.getAll;
    Dictionary<string, int> languageCodes = new Dictionary<string, int>();
    foreach (Language language in languages)
    {
      languageCodes.Add(language.CultureAlias.Substring(0, 2), language.id);
    }
    _languageCodes = languageCodes;
  }
  // Getting the language from the session will fail if this method is called from within a thread, so we need to use a try catch to supress that
  string lang = "";
  try
  {
    lang = umbraco.library.Session("lang");
  }
  catch {}
  if (lang != "")
  {
    if (_languageCodes.ContainsKey(lang))
      return _languageCodes[lang];
  }
  if (_dafaultLanguageId == -1)
  {
    string code = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["DefaultLanguageId"];
    if (code == null)
    {
      throw new System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException("DefaultLanguageId app setting is missing");
    }
    if (!int.TryParse(code, out _dafaultLanguageId))
    {
      throw new System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException("DefaultLanguageId app setting is not a number");
    }
  }
  return _dafaultLanguageId;
}

Which pulls out a lnaguage id from Umbraco (I think), which we use for getting the language name, and then pulling things out of the dictionary with that!

/Josh

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