Google AJAX Transliteration API :- How do i translate many elements in page to some language at one

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Published on 2010-05-02T16:33:30Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 16:37 UTC
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Hello, I have many elements on page and all of which i want to translate to some language. The language is not the same for all fields, that is, for 1st field it may be fr and for third field it may be en then again for 7th field it may be pa.

Basically i wrote the code and it's working :-

    <script type="text/javascript">
         //<![CDATA[
          google.load("language", "1");

            window.onload = function(){
               var elemPostTitles = document.getElementsByTagName("h4");
               var flag = true;

               for(var i = 0 ; i < elemPostTitles.length ; i++){
                    while(flag == false){

                    }
                   var postTitleElem = elemPostTitles[i];
                   var postContentElem = document.getElementById("postContent_" + i);

                   var postTitle = postTitleElem.innerHTML;
                   var postContent = postContentElem.innerHTML;
                   var languageCode = document.getElementById("languageCode_" + i).value;


                   google.language.detect(postTitle, function(result) {
                        if (!result.error && result.language) {
                            google.language.translate(postTitle, result.language, languageCode,
                            function(result) {
                            flag = true;
                            if (result.translation) {
                                    postTitleElem.innerHTML = result.translation;

                                }
                            });
                        }
                    });
                    flag = false;
               }

As you can see, what i am trying to do is restrict the loop from traversing until the result of previous ajax call is receieved. If i don't do this only the last field gets translated. My code works nicely, but because of the infinite loop, i keep getting errors from Mozilla to "stop executing scripts". How do i get rid of this? Also, is my approach correct? Or some inbuilt function is available which can ease my task? Thanks in advance :)

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