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On 15 Apr 2000, David Megginson wrote: > As our closest parallel, note that no one has yet (to my knowledge) > produced and deployed a version of HTML with alternative element-type > names. Perhaps some day a markup language for a really cool app will > come from Korea or Finland, and we'll just have to get used to Korean > or Finnish element type names (if the app was originally designed just > for local use). Why is this such a big deal? Surely it can't be that difficult to convert any SGML/XML document from one vocabulary to another using XSLT or a Perl script. We often use long_descriptive_function_names in Javascript during development and then optimize them later for delivery. Why not do the same with XML documents? Steve -- tired of being an underappreciated functionary in a soulless machine? hesketh.com is hiring: <http://hesketh.com/careers/> *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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