Re: XML and JSON

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> > I concede in advance that this is probably a nitpick :), but the name
> >     
> of the
>   
> > tag shouldn't matter
> >     
>
> Actually not really a nitpick. I do understand what Joe's saying about
> national-language enablement of the schema, but in reality it's not
> needed. You need look no further than XHTML to see that. There are not
> French, Italian and Korean versions of the HEAD, IMAGE, TABLE etc. tags.
> You can stick NL content inside the tags, but the tags are in English. 
>   
It's not needed for you because you're American, Walden <grin>.

But seriously, that attitude is deemed "provincialism" by some.  I 
personally agree with the concept of a single common language for 
programming constructs (for example, I have no desire to see opcodes 
change based on locale), but there are some who believe that purely 
English tags are inflexible.  I'm just pointing out that you can carry 
the concept of flexibility too far.

Joe