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From: Anders W. Tell <anderst@t...> >Does this mean that I cannot create sub types of boolean which allows >other languages than English? I think the XML Schema WG is working under the rationale that the only reliable approach is to standardize only a single way to do any one thing. So there are only Gregorian dates using ISO 8601, and there is only one form of ISO8601 used, for example. There has been a lot of debate about this between the W3C internationalization group, of course. The issue comes down to whether to provide localization or internationalization. I think, for XML schema, the non-localized approach (which is code for "English"--how shocking) can be justified. Since, I think, XML Schemas is fundamentally intended for systems with something like Java at one end and something like SQL at the other, the reasons for localization are perhaps less than otherwise. I think there is an assumption that input will go through something like a complex forms mechanism and output will go through something like XSL. For controlled vocabularies, I suspect the better way to handle them is to have a Swedish->English XSL script on the client. There are thousands of languages, and I don't think it is reasonable to expect implementers to implement them. And it is dangerous to have standards made using words that the editors could not read. I am sure any ideas are welcome. One approach would be to allow the schema developer to put in aliases for keywords. Another approach would be to define entities &sant; and &falskt; but then you would also need a DTD. Oops. 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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