- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 00:43:54 -0400
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
James Clark scripsit: > Non-ASCII names don't seem to be used all that much. However, I don't have > any hard data. More importantly, I believe MicroXML should support users > doing generic markup in the "right" way. If you are designing a vocabulary > for something that is inherently specific to a particular country, then > it's a perfectly natural, reasonable thing to do is to use the language of > that country for the names of your elements and attributes. The Ethiopic XML Group (I may have the name wrong) was an early supporter of XML 1.1, because they wanted to use specifically Amharic and Ge'ez names for things in their calendar, and those languages are pretty unreadable in transliteration. > I also think it would look really bad for a committee of anglophones to > decide on behalf of the non-English speaking peoples of the world that they > should use English for their element and attribute names. +1 -- The first thing you learn in a lawin' family John Cowan is that there ain't no definite answers cowan@ccil.org to anything. --Calpurnia in To Kill A Mockingbird
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