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Detailed Description

IMPORTANT NOTE: Our own access to the Altavista Babelfish data has been
terminated, so this web service has been disabled.  The service will remain down
indefinitely until a suitable replacement translation engine can be found.

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Interface for AltaVista's Babelfish service.

Translates text of up to 150 words in length. For more information 
about the service, see the babelfish homepage.

TERMS OF SERVICE NOTE: You may *NOT* use this service to do bulk 
conversions (like crawling a dictionary). Thank you.

Usage Notes

METHOD: BabelFish
      INPUT : 
          translationmode(xsd:string)
          sourcedata (xsd:string)

      OUTPUT
          return (xsd:string)

translationmodes are listed below.
sourcedata is the text to be translated.
result is the translated data.

Translation                 translationmode
-----------                 ----------------
English -> French           "en_fr"
English -> German           "en_de"
English -> Italian          "en_it"
English -> Portugese        "en_pt"
English -> Spanish          "en_es"
French -> English           "fr_en"
German -> English           "de_en"
Italian -> English          "it_en"
Portugese -> English        "pt_en"
Russian -> English          "ru_en"
Spanish -> English          "es_en"


BUGS

Currently, the service has trouble with some special
characters, such as those with umlauts, for the input
string.  For PERL client implementations that rely on
XML::Parser, this bug also will affect the parsing of
return strings.

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