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Steven Champeon <schampeo@h...> writes: > On 15 Apr 2000, David Megginson wrote: > > As our closest parallel, note that no one has yet (to my knowledge) > > produced and deployed a version of HTML with alternative element-type > > names. Perhaps some day a markup language for a really cool app will > > come from Korea or Finland, and we'll just have to get used to Korean > > or Finnish element type names (if the app was originally designed just > > for local use). > > Why is this such a big deal? Surely it can't be that difficult to convert > any SGML/XML document from one vocabulary to another using XSLT or a Perl > script. We often use long_descriptive_function_names in Javascript during > development and then optimize them later for delivery. Why not do the same > with XML documents? It's relatively simple to rename elements, but extraordinarily complicated to translate from one vocab to another in the general case. When you're looking at a large network of users and producers rather than a unidirectional information-supply chain, even a simple renaming introduces too much complexity -- imagine the browser market if each natural language had its own, localized HTML vocabulary. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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