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- From: David LeBlanc <whisper@accessone.com>
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 12:34:28 -0800
How about a novel idea: use the ISO standards for those things where they
exist. I'm pretty sure there's an ISO standard for dates for example.
Dave LeBlanc
At 02:01 PM 1/13/99 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>With all the focus on 'vertical' applications of XML, I'm a bit concerned
>that the opportunity to standardize some key horizontal elements may be
>past. Names, dates, and currency are typical items that are used in an
>enormous number of applications but are represented differently all over
>the world.
>
>XML seems like a useful tool for addressing these complexities, if only
>because of the ease with which its contents can be transformed into
>whatever format you want. MathML has addressed the complexities of
>mathematical notation - is there any similar movement for NameML, DateML,
>or CurrencyML? Or are we going to be stuck with 50 different formats for
>each of those?
>
>Just curious.
>
>Simon St.Laurent
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