Multilingual website

[jege]

Hello.

 

I tried to create my website an feature which allows it to be multilangual.

Eg. when i click on germanys flag it would display the page in german (I mean its already translated it just displays it) of course i could create an new directory call it de and throw the files there as translated.

But i dont want that. i would want it whit an xml file. lets say i create an folder which name is english -> in there i create an .xml file which i call lang.xml. Ok so when i go to the webpage and want it to be english it would read the xml file from there and display it. i got similar to this the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<lang>
  <home>Home</home>
  <forum>Forums</forum>
  <help>Help</help>
</lang>

 

so those would be my nav. so how could i create that the xml file defines what it says on the page? so if it would be: <home>the translation</home> it would show 'the translation' not 'Home'.

 

How i do this?

was hard to explain hope someone understands what i mean