Internationalization and naming

[Avi Rappoport]

At 1:42 PM -0500 1/4/99, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> While writing a blip about XML's support for multiple languages (Unicode,
> xml:lang, etc.), it occurred to me that XML still has a ways to go toward
> removing the language barriers with regard to element and attribute names.
>
There's a fascinating article about this issue and the Dublin Core 
set of simple metadata tags.  Even with such a small set, the 
translation issues are quite difficult.

<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december98/12baker.html>

Avi
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