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

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net wrote:

> Subject: Re: [school-discuss] EduML - case issue.
> From: Dominique Broeglin <broeglin@free.fr>
> To: "schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net"
>
> Oups, sorry, I responded before I receive your mail.
>
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 17:57, Les Richardson wrote:
> >
> > 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....
> >
>
>         Yes, but we should not forgot that the applications that will read this
> data are drived by a human beeings. Having a huge amount of course
> material or school informations would be of no use if the application
> can not sort out the precise information you want.
>         I think that informations semantically describing the informations
> provided are very important. What do you think ?
>
>         Dom

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