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Subject: Re: [geolang-comment] One or two files for English and French?
Mary Nishikawa wrote: > >> *Steve >> I think English and French have to be in the same file, thus: >> >> http://psi.oasis-open.org/geolang/iso3166/#jp > > Steve, yes you are right, and ISO would probably not want to add on > other languages, as John mentioned so there really isn't a need. Let's > say that I need to use Japanese names with the ISO set. I should use the > same published subject indicators and merge my names in? This certainly seems the most sensible thing to do. Anyone could publish similar sets for their own languages. > Also, how about my other suggestion to delete the row for numeric codes > since they are repeated in the subject indicators, anyway, and to delete > the repetitive strings. There may be some redundancy in this, but there is value in having those codes appearing as scoped base names in their own right, ie., being able to locate specific topics via a subject identifier (whose string just happens to be a specific code) is quite different than being able to obtain the specific ISO code for the topic. One might want the code, or to be able to extract the set of codes. I don't know if this is any help, but you could point to the base name itself as a subject identifier (as any XTM element can have an ID and therefore be considered as a resource). That would save some disk space, if that's the motivation. my 2p, anyway... Murray ...................................................................... Murray Altheim <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/> Knowledge Media Institute The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK One of the sad things about corporations is that despite their name they have no corpora, no body responsible for their actions. They are therefore free to do whatever is the will of those who control them, and can transmogrify as necessary, like ghosts, to thwart those who might try. --ma
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