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RE: Multi-lingual experiment - a call for action

• From: Bob Kline <bkline@r...>
• To: Paulo Gaspar <Paulo.Gaspar@k...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:57:04 -0400 (EDT)

Have the ISO-639 language codes fallen out of favor for some reason?

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Paulo Gaspar wrote:

> Here's European Portuguese:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE experiência-xmldev [
>   <!ELEMENT experiência-xmldev (item)+>
>   <!ELEMENT item (título, autor, editor, preço)>
>   <!ATTLIST item xml:lang CDATA #REQUIRED>
>   <!ELEMENT título (#PCDATA)>
>   <!ELEMENT autor (#PCDATA)>
>   <!ELEMENT editor (#PCDATA)>
>   <!ELEMENT preço (#PCDATA)>
>   <!ELEMENT preço moeda CDATA #REQUIRED>
> ]>
> <experiência-xmldev>
>   <item xml:lang="português">
>     <título>Guia de STL</título>
>     <autor>David Musser</autor>
>     <editor>Addison Wesley</editor>
>     <preço moeda="escudo">5.400$50</preço>
>   </item>
> </experiência-xmldev>
> 
> 
> Remarks:
>  - This should be the same for Brasilian Portuguese, except
>    for the currency. Keep in mind, however, that in other
>    domains the choice of vocabulary could be quite different;
> 
>  - I am not so good at XML details and I thing the price
>    format is just plain illegal. However, since we are going
>    into internationalization questions, I wrote the price in
>    the format of most popular use in Portugal.
>    I am aware by now that this is one of the less known
>    number formatting cases  - the '$' being used as decimal
>    point. The decimal point is used as thousands separator,
>    just like in German. We also use ',' as decimal point.
> 
> Due to the use of English software, many companies and
> institutions are now using more "international" formats,
> even on paper print. However, the formats I mentioned above
> are still the most commonly used.
> 
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Paulo Gaspar
> 
> 
> > The original document:
> > <!DOCTYPE xmldev-experiment [
> > <!ELEMENT xmldev-experiment(item)+ >
> > <!ELEMENT item (title, author, publisher, price) >
> > <!ATTLIST item  xml:lang CDATA #REQUIRED >
> > <!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA) >
> > <!ELEMENT author (#PCDATA) >
> > <!ELEMENT publisher (#PCDATA) >
> > <!ELEMENT price (#PCDATA) >
> > <!ATTLIST price currency CDATA #REQUIRED>
> > ]>
> > <xmldev-experiment>
> > <item xml:lang="english">
> > <title>STL Tutorial</title>
> > <author>David Musser</author>
> > <publisher>Addison Wesley</publisher>
> > <price currency="can">54.50</price>
> > </item>
> > </xmldev-experiment>
> >
> 
> 
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