From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-02-26T03:07:57+09:00
Subject: Semi-OT: Machine translation

There's an interesting little library on RAA that will send text through 
the AltaVista translation website and then parse out all of the HTML that 
the site returns to get back just the translated text.

This is a neat toy, but is fragile.  Does anyone know if any of the online 
machine translation services offer any sort of web accessible API or web 
interface that does not wrap the returned text in gunk that must be 
trimmed away to get to the transated text?

My suspicion is that the answer is, "No.", but I have been wrong before.  
:)

Thanks,

Kirk Haines