RE: [xsl] Format Phone number

[B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Which brings us back to Michael's earlier recommendation that you 
> don't hard-code any particular national convention regarding how 
> phone numbers should be formatted.

Actually, I think it is as unhelpful to insist that all users treat 
all applications as if they were in use world wide as to insist that 
all users use a local convention. For example, while I applaud XML's 
accommodation of names in virtually all languages that doesn't mean 
that an application written for my neighborhood association needs to 
accommodate street names in Japanese - we don't have any and we know 
we won't have any.

Based on the information we have seen from this user, a local 
convention for formatting phone numbers may well meet the need. 
Reminding a user that everyone doesn't have the same requirements 
seems to me to be helpful. Insisting that the user accommodate those 
others without knowing the scope of application is ... well ... as 
narrow minded as we are telling the user s/he is. And perhaps less 
well informed.

-- Tommie
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