- From: Ramkumar Menon <ramkumar.menon@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:17:37 -0700
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org, xmlschema-dev@w3.org, xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Received on Friday, 18 April 2008 19:18:10 UTC
Gurus, I had a question. Why is it that languages like XML Schema, XSLT etc allow only English in the element and attribute names ? I am not referring to the content, but the actual elements and attributes defined by the grammar. i.e. <schema>, <template>, <call-template>, <for-each>, <element>, <attribute> etc.... Does it make any sense at all to allow these grammars itself to support writing schemas/xslts etc in local languages. Any designer tool can then interpret the text as per the character encoding specified in the document declaration and render it according to the locale/language preferences. I know I am missing something very fundamental. Ram -- Shift to the left, shift to the right! Pop up, push down, byte, byte, byte! -Ramkumar Menon A typical Macroprocessor
Received on Friday, 18 April 2008 19:18:10 UTC