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> Liam
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> PS: in dealing with data from multiple languages and cultures,
> (1) there should be xml:lang attributes to indicate language;
> (2) you will generally also be dealing with different conventions for
> numbers - 1,203.45 vs. 1.204,45 or 1 204·45
> which would greatly affect your example.
>
> Liam
I would argue that identifiers (qnames) and data are fundamentally different areas wrt internationalization. I would not expect variants in attribute names to be a problem one needs to gracefully handle. However variants in data like number formats definitely are.
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