Subject: RE: [xsl] Non-English languages in XSLT, XML Schema grammars From: "Scott Trenda" <Scott.Trenda@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:43:13 -0500 |
I'm a little curious about this too, but I would guess it relates to general cross-language capabilities in any computer language. The same question as applied to, for example, Javascript, doesn't make as much sense - should _fonction_ be recognized as the _function_ keyword in a document with French encoding, or _関数_ in one with Japanese encoding? What about the original keyword when the encoding is different? I'm certain this conversation has taken place before somewhere. I would, however, be interested to hear what the "official" standardized stance is on the issue. ~ Scott -----Original Message----- From: Ramkumar Menon [mailto:ramkumar.menon@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:19 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [xsl] Non-English languages in XSLT, XML Schema grammars Gurus, I had a question. Why is it that languages like XML Schema, XSLT etc allow only English in the element and attribute names ? I am not referring to the content, but the actual elements and attributes defined by the grammar. i.e. <schema>, <template>, <call-template>, <for-each>, <element>, <attribute> etc.... Does it make any sense at all to allow these grammars itself to support writing schemas/xslts etc in local languages. Any designer tool can then interpret the text as per the character encoding specified in the document declaration and render it according to the locale/language preferences. I know I am missing something very fundamental. Ram -- Shift to the left, shift to the right! Pop up, push down, byte, byte, byte! -Ramkumar Menon A typical Macroprocessor
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