Debbie Garside <debbie at ictmarketing dot co dot uk> wrote: > If we really want Joe Public to start tagging data correctly we need > to facilitate the provision of data in an XML format that can be > imported into proprietary software. Frank and I did some work on this > many moons ago and we were about 99% of the way there - this needs to > be completed and made publicly available. I'm not suggesting that > this should form part of the RFC but a tool should be created and (if > possible) referenced within the RFC. (perhaps via Stephane's site) Stéphane's site already offers two different XML versions, updated regularly, complete with the RelaxNG schema for his version and the DTD for Frank's. There are lots of different ways to represent data in XML and I'm not sure what more needs to be done to facilitate this without actually changing the Registry format... and we did discuss that already, on the list, and decided not to upset that particular apple cart. > And, whilst I am busy sticking spanners in the works, I would like to > bring up the idea (again) of being able to reference the RFC within > the tag (if desired). This is extremely important for archiving > purposes. You can do that now, but that's a higher-level protocol. Just as one example, you could embed your language tag in an RFC 4151 tag: tag:ictmarketing.co.uk,2001:rfc4646:en-UK:2008-05-06 -- Doug Ewell * Arvada, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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