Localizing the Content Query Web Part in XSL

Question

Has anyone managed to get the locale ID for the context of an instance of a Content Query Web Part in XSL, without extending the class?

DataViewWebParts have a Language parameter passed in, but CQWP doesn't have this.

Even if there's a way to pass in the LCID via the CommonViewFields somehow would make it accessable in the XSL...

(This is all for MOSS).

Solution

You can use ParameterBindings to this purpose.

<ParameterBinding Name="Language" Location="Resource(wss,language_value)" />

This will return "en-us" for English locale in xsl:param "Language". Also, you can pass whole resource values this way.

You can read more about this in Stefan Stanev's blog:

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