Non-English languages in XSLT, XML Schema grammars

["Ramkumar Menon" <ramkumar.menon@gmail.com>]

Gurus,

 

I had a question. Why is it that languages like XML Schema, XSLT etc allow only English in the element and attribute names ?  I am not referring to the content, but the actual elements and attributes defined by the grammar.

i.e.  <schema>, <template>, <call-template>, <for-each>, <element>, <attribute> etc....

Does it make any sense at all to allow these grammars itself to support writing schemas/xslts etc in local languages.

 

Any designer tool can then interpret the text as per the character encoding specified in the document declaration and render it according to the locale/language preferences.

 

I know I am missing something very fundamental.

 

Ram

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