Re: [school-discuss] EduML - case issue.

[Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca>]

> > Also, what about character set declarations? We are probably all going to
> > use ISO-Latin (8859-1) in N. America/W Europe.
> 
> Well, if we're doing more that English then surely we need to have the 
> concept included such that any charset is allowed?

yes, as in:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

 
> But if we include charset defs, then we also need to define the
> language a course is in, no?

Your root element could have a language attribute....

<course lang="no"> ...
  <author>Fred...
  <title>...

</course>

 
> Boy, if a student can say "I need a first course in continuity of
> functions and I can handle Turkish, Norwegian or Hindi", this will
> be really something...

Again, remember this is data designed for program consumption and
transformation....

Les R.