- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 14:57:00 EST
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
murray@spyglass.com (Murray Altheim) wrote: > bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak) writes: > >Is it possible to agree on a basic list of such types? > > In English, possibly. Not much use for the rest of the world unless you as > a non-English speaker don't mind learning the meanings of some rather > complicated relationships in a foreign language. User agents are free to use local translations in an interface, just as some user agents choose not to display the pointy brackets that surround a BR element in HTML... :-) The alternative is to use numbers, as per the MARC library cataloguing scheme, but in fact arbitrary sequences of letters are probably no harder to use than arbitrary sequences of numbers... Lee
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