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Henry> Henry S. Thompson <URL:mailto:ht@c...> 0> In article <f5b3e71oycq.fsf@c...>, Henry wrote: Henry> In other words, if there are (natural) language/culture dependent Henry> aspects to our documents, then if we are good citizens we should Henry> use the xml:lang attribute to signal this. This is NOT the same Henry> as (see some earlier messages) expecting the PROCESSOR's locale Henry> to sort things out: it's more like including the AUTHOR's locale Henry> in the document. Henry> Henry> So just as I might write Henry> Henry> <balance xml:lang='fr'>quatre cinquante</balance> Henry> Henry> if we add sensitivity to language to our lexical typing, I Henry> might write Henry> Henry> <balance xml:lang='fr'>4,50</balance> Henry> Henry> OR Henry> Henry> <balance xml:lang='ar'>٤٫٥ʔ</balance> Henry> Henry> Is the latter an indication of a plausable way forward, Henry> i.e. lexical types which are parameterised by (natural) Henry> language? It looks attractive at first sight, but think of the burden you're placing on processors - instead of authors having to transform from their *own* locale to a canonical representation, readers have to transform from the *document's* (arbitrary) locale. So readers now need to know (enough about) *all* the locales from which they might receive data. 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. -- 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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