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On May 15, 2005, at 17:32, Robin Berjon wrote: > One aspect that you seem to be failing to take into account based on > your comparison with Finland is that everyone in Finland speaks seven > languages fluently. ... > If you don't speak English (or not well at all) -- which is *far* more > common than you imagine I don't expect all end users to speak other languages besides their native language. I don't even expect all developers to speak other languages besides their native language. I have, however, been assuming that being able to *read* either English or Japanese was prerequisite for being a software developer. How do French developers read Javadocs or Perl POD for non-core libraries? > It's not just element and attribute names though, see the weekdays > enumeration here: > > http://www.w3.org/2005/03/02-ishida-tech-plen/ Isn't the general tendency when fixing things to move away from DTDs to RELAX NG? > I also think that you're blowing the interoperability issues of XML > 1.1 way out of proportion. An XML 1.0 processor is required to reject all XML 1.1 docs. Seems like a big deal in terms of interop. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@i... http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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