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- From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- To: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>, "XML-DEV (E-mail)" <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:51:17 -0400
At 03:16 PM 4/15/00 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
>It's relatively simple to rename elements, but extraordinarily
>complicated to translate from one vocab to another in the general
>case. When you're looking at a large network of users and producers
>rather than a unidirectional information-supply chain, even a simple
>renaming introduces too much complexity -- imagine the browser market
>if each natural language had its own, localized HTML vocabulary.
But imagine the browser market if there was a simple standardized way to
perform that mapping. That would be amazing, and certainly worth considering.
Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
Building XML Applications
Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical
Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth
http://www.simonstl.com
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