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Toby Speight writes: > Note that I'm considering the issues from the point of view of an > interchange format. I've no objection to the use of the above in > an internal, single-language environment, as long as the elements > are transformed to a canonical form when passed to unsuspecting > readers. I don't think that anyone's disagreeing that a standard lexical interchange format can be useful; the question is where it should be standardised: at the general XML level, or at the XML-based specification level? In other words, should there be a collection of one-size-fits-all interchange formats that all XML-based specs have to use, or should each spec be free to adapt its own? Or to put this yet another way, why don't we standardise on ',' for the decimal (and currency) separator in XML? <price currency="USD">4,55</price> You could always render using '.' if the locale demanded it. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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