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How about a novel idea: use the ISO standards for those things where they exist. I'm pretty sure there's an ISO standard for dates for example. Dave LeBlanc At 02:01 PM 1/13/99 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >With all the focus on 'vertical' applications of XML, I'm a bit concerned >that the opportunity to standardize some key horizontal elements may be >past. Names, dates, and currency are typical items that are used in an >enormous number of applications but are represented differently all over >the world. > >XML seems like a useful tool for addressing these complexities, if only >because of the ease with which its contents can be transformed into >whatever format you want. MathML has addressed the complexities of >mathematical notation - is there any similar movement for NameML, DateML, >or CurrencyML? Or are we going to be stuck with 50 different formats for >each of those? > >Just curious. > >Simon St.Laurent >XML: A Primer / Cookies >Sharing Bandwidth >Building XML Applications (March) >http://www.simonstl.com > >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...) > > > 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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