- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:07:36 +0100 (MET)
- To: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>, www-international@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
On Oct 26, 8:28pm, Peter Flynn wrote: > Subject: Re: Euro currency sign > Ah, so you (and several others) have been discussing date representation > in machine-readable protocol specification, while I and several othrs were > talking about dates in human-readable text, hence the confusion. > > The point about using markup is surely that I can use <date > value="2004-02-03" calendar="whatever">3. Feber 1997</date> in my > Austrian Web pages and it can still be found by anyone searching for > events happening that day (or whatever the application is), and given > a target language and locale, any conversion process can trivially > localize the dates as part of the automation of translation (whenever > that arrives). Yes, exactly, and your example shows very well the applicability of the human-readable and machine-readable forms. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
Received on Monday, 27 October 1997 09:09:24 UTC