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  3. April 2008

Re: XML and JSON

Walden H. Leverich wrote:
I concede in advance that this is probably a nitpick :), but the name
of the
tag shouldn't matter

Actually not really a nitpick. I do understand what Joe's saying about
national-language enablement of the schema, but in reality it's not
needed. You need look no further than XHTML to see that. There are not
French, Italian and Korean versions of the HEAD, IMAGE, TABLE etc. tags.
You can stick NL content inside the tags, but the tags are in English.
It's not needed for you because you're American, Walden <grin>.

But seriously, that attitude is deemed "provincialism" by some. I personally agree with the concept of a single common language for programming constructs (for example, I have no desire to see opcodes change based on locale), but there are some who believe that purely English tags are inflexible. I'm just pointing out that you can carry the concept of flexibility too far.

Joe

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