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Re: Here's how to process XML documents written in German

• From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
• To: David Lee <dlee@calldei.com>
• Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:54:41 -0500

On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 01:57 +0000, David Lee wrote:

> I would argue that identifiers (qnames) and data are fundamentally
> different areas wrt internationalization.    I would not expect
> variants in attribute names to be a problem one needs to gracefully
> handle.  However variants in data like number formats definitely are.

Actually I think we're in general agreement there, *except* to note that
you may get this problem with ID / IDREF values, whether defined by DTD
or some other type of schema.

In addition some formats (e.g. RDF) use element and/or attribute names
to encode content, although I think this is not generally good design.

Liam

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• References:
  • Here's how to process XML documents written in German
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Here's how to process XML documents written in German
    • From: "Tony Graham" <tgraham@mentea.net>
  • RE: Here's how to process XML documents written in German
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • RE: Here's how to process XML documents written in German
    • From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
  • Re: Here's how to process XML documents written in German
    • From: David Lee <dlee@calldei.com>