- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:09:12 -0400
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 01:54 AM 10/1/96 +1000, Rick Jelliffe wrote: >Is this really more what XML should be about: a markup language for >presenting documents in the form required by the application? (Which >would correspond to the normalised form of an SGML document when parsed >against archetectural forms that model the XML application.) In other >words, a temporary/application/closed-system format rather than a >archiving/modelling/manipulation/open-system format like SGML. If so, we should think hard about the internationalization issues. As Gavin pointed out, it may be unnecessarily heavy handed of us to require a Java applet to convert to UCS-2 (or worse, UTF-8) in order to pass a few bytes of data to a Visual Basic script (which will process it as ASCII, reconvert it back and pass it on to a database engine). Perhaps we should err on the side of flexibility in this internationalization issue. Paul Prescod
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