Re: a few short notes

On Feb 1, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Martin Duerst wrote:
> The administrator viewpoint is important. But there are many different
> administrators. Administrators in China, for example, would most 
> probably
> prefer to use Chinese characters directly

exactly. One great reason to store information in a format like XML as 
meta-data, and let the system pull it out and display it in a native 
format, rather than embed headers in things and assume everyone can 
read it in whatever format it was sent as.  <subject>foo</subject> 
means something very different than 'Subject: foo' here, and is a lot 
more extensible and localizable.