From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-02-26T06:19:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Semi-OT: Machine translation

il Thu, 26 Feb 2004 03:07:57 +0900, Kirk Haines <khaines@enigo.com> ha
scritto::

>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?
>

in the soap4r distribituion there was a SOAP client for babelfish
service