Re: [xml-dev] Re: Are the data users happy? Why not?

["Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>]

From: "K. Ari Krupnikov" <ari@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> 

> I also keep
> seeing HTML forms where the "country" part of the address is a
> drop-down list, 150-odd long, of all UN members, just because it's
> available. The list ensures only "legal" values can be entered*, but
> it checks for membership in a wrong set -- UN member nations as
> opposed to nations where the site has or wants to have customers. I
> wonder how many sites have users in Afghanistan?

Taiwan, for example, is not a member of the UN.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe