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Toby Speight wrote: > > Henry> Henry S. Thompson <URL:mailto:ht@c...> > > Henry> In other words, if there are (natural) language/culture dependent > Henry> aspects to our documents, then if we are good citizens we should > Henry> use the xml:lang attribute to signal this. A good "if" ... related: "if" the document is directly created or consumed by humans, we should use some locale tagging. ("xml:lang" identifies language, not locale!) > It looks attractive at first sight, but think of the burden you're > placing on processors ... readers now > need to know (enough about) *all* the locales from which they might > receive data. I'd contend that the "float" (or "r4") data _type_ doesn't have any such localization issues. IEEE floating point is a binary spec, and nobody's proposed not assuming IEEE floating point. Rather, this issue is an encoding issue. By and large, having just one (canonical) form is a lot easier for programs to deal with: smaller code, easier to debug, faster in normal cases, and so on. But: is this data being generated by/for programs, or people? People have different priorities than programs. - Dave xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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