I am here-by going to bless Stephan Richter as the as the new maintainer of ZBabel, he's doing far more work on it, than I ever could, and has driven the development for the past 12 months.

Stephan's Site for ZBabel is here

This is the ZBabel Translation System for ZOPE, the Z Object Publishing 
Environment (http://www.zope.org/)

This is a phrase by phrase translation system, it allows you to translate
key parts of your site, and the content if you desire. With this you don't
need to maintain seperate source for each supported language, or mix different
languages in your source. You can do your entire site in one language and
then translate it without re-editing the source code.
This system also automatically creates the catalogs as you go, you do not 
need to manually insert text strings into databases for translation.


0.2 and above now feature caching of phrase lookups using the
ZOPE ZSQL Caching mechanism.
0.3 now actually lets you use variables for source and destination
languages (I'm a duh head ...).
1.0 has some huge amount of rework done by Stephan Richter see Changes for details of all 
the work he's done.


You can now use
<dtml-babel src=var&rt; or
<dtml-babel src="expr"&rt; or
<dtml-babel src=string&rt;
This product now extracts to simply ZBabel, not
lib/python/Products/ZBabel.