# Reading xml files & i18n **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [May 15, 2008, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-xml-files-i18n/137688 "2008-05-15T10:37:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nurullah)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-xml-files-i18n/137688/1 "2008-05-15T10:37:48Z")
Could anyone read xml files from radiant pages? i installed backdoor extension and hpricot but still couldnt achive to what i want i want to read xml files that is located on another server is there any extension for that? secondly, is there any attempt or chance to translate radiant to another language? (in my case, to turkish) ---
**Author:** ![nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nurullah)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-xml-files-i18n/137688/2 "2008-05-15T11:07:59Z")
U can have a hack to the remote server using a net/http request and the achieve the rest using REXML…This should work acutally … cheers, kranthi ---
**Author:** ![nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nurullah)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-xml-files-i18n/137688/3 "2008-05-15T11:56:07Z")
with the help of backdoor? i want to deploy this script to a page: [http://www.ikinoktayazilim.com/wordpress/2007/11/13/vakitrb/](http://www.ikinoktayazilim.com/wordpress/2007/11/13/vakitrb/) but constantly gives errors firstly i cant use include REXML no probs i added it to right place vakitler = REXML::Document.new(File.new(‘vakit.xml’)).root.to\_a[bugun].text.split(/\t/) but i wouldnt work this way tho… but that’d work: vakitler = REXML::Document.new(File.new(‘vakit.xml’)) ---
**Author:** ![nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nurullah)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-xml-files-i18n/137688/4 "2008-05-15T13:47:58Z")
i miss something? how to run a ruby script from a page w/o backdoor extension? ---
**Author:** ![nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nurullah)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-xml-files-i18n/137688/5 "2008-05-15T13:51:33Z")
U can create a tag like the standard tags… I mean create a radiant customized tag to handle the ruby script… cheers, kranthi. ---
**Author:** ![nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nurullah)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-xml-files-i18n/137688/6 "2008-05-17T22:51:36Z")
where to put custom tags? creating and extension or put them on lib/ dir? ---
**Author:** ![nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nurullah)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-xml-files-i18n/137688/7 "2008-05-18T20:26:46Z")
Yeah, All you need to do is to create an extension.Then create a file and write a tag which you can use it globally… cheers, kranthi ---
**Author:** ![nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@nurullah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nurullah)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reading-xml-files-i18n/137688/8 "2008-05-15T12:11:33Z")
No I dont think we need to use backdoor extension… Its not mandatory… U can use net/http and send/receive the request in xml format. cheers, kranthi.