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<search function="freetrans">
  <name>FreeTranslation.com Language Translation</name>
  <description>
    Translate text or webpages from one language to another.<br/>
      <a class="helpboxDescLabels">Switches:</a><br />
      <table class="helpboxDescTable">
          <tr><td>/from:en</td><td>/to:fr</td><td> - </td><td>English to French</td></tr>
          <tr><td>/from:en</td><td>/to:de</td><td> - </td><td>English to German</td></tr>
          <tr><td>/from:en</td><td>/to:it</td><td> - </td><td>English to Italian</td></tr>
          <tr><td>/from:en</td><td>/to:pt</td><td> - </td><td>English to Portuguese</td></tr>
          <tr><td>/from:en</td><td>/to:es</td><td> - </td><td>English to Spanish</td></tr>
          <tr><td>/from:en</td><td>/to:no</td><td> - </td><td>English to Norwegian</td></tr>
          <tr><td>/from:fr</td><td>/to:en</td><td> - </td><td>French to English</td></tr>
          <tr><td>/from:de</td><td>/to:en</td><td> - </td><td>German to English</td></tr>
          <tr><td>/from:it</td><td>/to:en</td><td> - </td><td>Italian to English</td></tr>
          <tr><td>/from:pt</td><td>/to:en</td><td> - </td><td>Portuguese to English</td></tr>
          <tr><td>/from:es</td><td>/to:en</td><td> - </td><td>Spanish to English</td></tr>
      </table>
    <div class="helpboxDescLabels">Examples:</div>
    <table class="helpboxDescTable">
          <tr><td>freetrans /from:en /to:es hello how are you</td></tr>
      <tr><td>freetrans /from:en /to:es http://www.whitehouse.gov</td></tr>
      </table>
  </description>
  <category>Reference</category>
  <link>http://www.freetranslation.com</link>
  <contributor>Neel Doshi, Greg Mitchell</contributor>

  <form name="freetransfTEXT"
        action="http://ets.freetranslation.com:5081/"
        method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="Sequence" value="core"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="Mode" value="html"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="template" value="TextResults2.htm"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="Language"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="SrcText"/>
  </form>

  <form name="freetransfURL"
        action="http://fets3.freetranslation.com:5081/"
        method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="Sequence" value="core"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="Language"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="Url"/>
  </form>

  <script><![CDATA[
    function freetrans(q)
    {
        if(nullArgs("freetrans", q))
            return false;
        else
        {
            var func_name = "freetrans";
            var switch_list = new Array("from", "to");
            var args = parseArgs(q, switch_list);

            // check if the required switches are set
            for (var j = 0; j < switch_list.length; j++)
            {
                if ( typeof args.switch_val[ switch_list[j] ] == "undefined" || args.switch_val[ switch_list[j] ] == "" )
                {
                    alert(func_name + ":  /" + switch_list[j] + " switch must be entered.  Type '" + func_name + " ?' to see instructions");
                    return false;
                }
            }

            // Convert the switches to freetrans text
            for (j = 0; j < switch_list.length; j++)
            {
                // Unfortunately, since we are attempting to match the syntax of this search with the babel search, if
                // freetranslations.com adds new languages, the search will need to be modified in this switch statement.
                switch ( args.switch_val[switch_list[j]]) {
                    case "en":
                        args.switch_val[switch_list[j]] = "English";
                        break;
                    case "fr":
                        args.switch_val[switch_list[j]] = "French";
                        break;
                    case "de":
                        args.switch_val[switch_list[j]] = "German";
                        break;
                    case "it":
                        args.switch_val[switch_list[j]] = "Italian";
                        break;
                    case "pt":
                        args.switch_val[switch_list[j]] = "Portuguese";
                        break;
                    case "es":
                        args.switch_val[switch_list[j]] = "Spanish";
                        break;
                    case "no":
                        args.switch_val[switch_list[j]] = "Norwegian";
                        break;
                    default:
                        alert(func_name + ":  /" + switch_list[j] + " switch is not valid.  Type '" + func_name + " ?' to see instructions");
                        return false;
                }
            }

            // Determine if the string is a url or not
            var strURL = isURL(args.q);
            if (strURL)
            {
                freetransfURL.Url.value = strURL;
                freetransfURL.Language.value =  args.switch_val["from"] + "/" +  args.switch_val["to"];
                submitForm(freetransfURL);
            }
            else
            {
                freetransfTEXT.SrcText.value = args.q;
                freetransfTEXT.Language.value =  args.switch_val["from"] + "/" +  args.switch_val["to"];
                submitForm(freetransfTEXT);
            }
            return true;
        }
    }
  ]]></script>

  <copyright>
    Copyright (c) 2002 David Bau
    Distributed under the terms of the
    GNU Public License, Version 2 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt)
  </copyright>
</search>