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Re: OK: No EO and instead Locale Tag?
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Bruno Vernier wrote:
>XML itself can still internationalize EDUML; by using tags for optional
>local tagnames right after the start of <edu:ml> ... leaving it up to
...
> <school fr="ecole" es="escuela"> // (fr=french es=espanol)
> <snail en="address" fr="adresse"> // (en=english)
> <phone fr="tel">
Now *that's* the way to do it! The programmers themselves, with the
proper application of #define directives (and equivalents in other
languages) could even benefit from this scheme, as the translations would
be immediately available from the EDUML specification itself.
Wil
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