Look at the code snippet below, this is just enough to pump internationalized tips into user interface, according to the selected locale.

Meta[] tips = meta.getMetaArray("tips/tip", locale);
for (Meta tip : tips)
{
    String title = tip.getStringAttribute("title");
    String text = tip.getString();
    JEditorPane tipPane = new JEditorPane("text/html", text);
    tipPane.setEditable(false);
    tipsPane.addTab(title, tipPane);
}

This snippet is from tutor/meta/Brief.java

And the XML content for default locale is like this:

 <tips>
  <tip title="Tips">
   <![CDATA[
In this panel you get tips about how to play with this demo, see other tips 
under each Tab.
<br>
Tip tabs here are populated by meta array <code>tips/tip</code> inside 
<code>tutor/meta/Brief.meta</code>
]]>
  </tip>

  <tip title="Navigating">
   ..... ..... .....
..... ..... .....
  ..... .....

  <tip title="Hot Reloading">
   <![CDATA[
If you are running this demo locally, try add, remove, or modify those 
<em>.meta</em> files in local classpath, then press <b>[Reload MetaBundles]</b> 
button. You'll see your changes take effect immediately.]]>
  </tip>
 </tips>

This snippet is from tutor/meta/Brief.meta

Let's look at the first line of code:

Meta[] tips = meta.getMetaArray("tips/tip", locale);

"tips/tip" is the essential XPath expression to fetch all the tip nodes as an array of Meta objects.

Then tip.getStringAttribute("title") will get a tip node's title attribute, and tip.getString() will get all XML text nested inside this tip node.

String title = tip.getStringAttribute("title");
String text = tip.getString();

The rest code just construct a JEditorPane to render the tip text as html, and add it to the JTabbedPane tipsPane.

‹ Previous • TOC • Next ›