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From: Don Park <donpark@d...> >There is also no need to talk down to me from a >high horse about the problems of some lost tribe >in Mongolia. I have lived long enough to have >my own opinions about such things and I doubt >we will ever convinced each other about what >the 'right' thing to do is. I live and work in Taiwan. If Chinese names are allowed, people here can accept XML (e.g., the Electronic Government Initiative). If Chinese encodings are allowed (e.g., Big5) people here can use XML. So both names and encodings are needed. According to a post somewhere else (by Murata Makoto I think), 50% of Japanese XML pages use Japanese script markup. Taiwan is the %1 supplier of computer peripherals in the world and the #11 economic power. Japan is in the top 3 economic powers. Neither of them are lost tribes of Mongolia; and, in any case, if the Mongolians et al. are lost, perhaps it is the result of us forgetting them. An element name is not like a keyword in a programming language. It is more like a variable name or field name. These have much more visibility to ordinary users than keywords in languages. Rick Jelliffe 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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