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Joe Pluta skrev den 28-04-2008 23:00:
deficiencies, even if has a schema. For example, in French, the tag
should be prenom, not firstname. So now you need a meta-schema that
allows flexible nomenclature. But it doesn't end there: some cultures
Trust me, you don't want to go there.
A major help when doing exchange between systems is that you have an
_English_ description of what you have in your hand. I have had the
pleasure of receiving XML documents with tags in Swedish - which is not
too bad for a Dane though - but also with national characters in the
tags, which make it very hard to deal with in code as - which character
set do we save our source code in - and "how do I TYPE this thing?"
It got worse when we had to work on a Finnish system. Joblogs in
Finnish are .. eh.. challenging.
XML is meant for computers and programmers (which implicitly means
working in English), not end-users.
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