Markup for Internationalization: Strings with Markup
- Strings as simple sequences of characters may be enough for some
situations, but not in general
- Sometimes, control or formating characters may do the job, but markup
is better (see Unicode in XML
and other Markup Languages)
- XML is at the intersection of document and data, well suited to solve
this problem
- Technologies such as XML Schema, XML Query, and RDF need to:
- provide good support for strings with markup
- simplify and smoothen transition from strings to strings with
markup
