I think your only option here is to use clientside script to perform the
transform, and then pass in the language setting as a parameter.  As
it's clientside in IE you will be using msxml3 (unless you use script,
in which case you could use msxml4 if it's available), and I don't think
that has an extention function to obtain the langauge setting.

Visit

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_client.asp

For some tutorial on clientside transforms.

cheers
andrew

> This is what I am trying to achieve without much success so far:
> 
> On a local harddrive or network (so there is no web server 
> involved) the user will point his file browser at some xml 
> file. The xml file will reference an xsl stylesheet like this:
> 
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Stylesheet.xsl"?>
> 
> My aim is for the stylesheet to find out the language setting 
> of the user's browser. I have tried JavaScript 
> navigator.language. While I managed to show the language 
> setting in the browser window, what I really want, is to 
> select language dependent style info, like keywords, data 
> format, etc., based on the language setting. So, if my xml 
> file contains something like this:
> 
> <Distance>100</Distance>
> 
> With a browser language setting of German this might 
> automatically be displayed as:
> 
> Entfernung: 100 km
> 
> and with English-US as:
> 
> Distance: 62 miles
> 
> My problem is not having multiple stylesheets achieving this, 
> or using external files with the language dependent info, the 
> problem is the automatic selection of the proper styling 
> based on the browser setting.
> 
> I do not want to have the user having to select a language by 
> some on-screen mechanism. This only has to work in Internet 
> Explorer 6.0, but if this also works for other browsers that 
> would be even better.
> 
> Since I am relatively new to the combination of xsl and 
> scripting I would appreciate an answer with foolproof 
> examples that I can understand.