On 02/14/2003 09:00:16 AM Michael Everson wrote: >At 13:38 +0000 2003-02-14, William Overington wrote: > >>Books in libraries are often classified with a code consisting of digits and >>a full stop character. For example, the number 515.53 is on a label which >>is still on the spine of a book which I bought in a sale of withdrawn books >>from a library. So, if U+E0002 were used to introduce a tag for the library >>book classification code, then a sequence starting with U+E0002 and using >>some other tag characters could be used to classify the subject matter of >>any document which is stored in computerized form. > >No, no, no, no, no. People should use XML or other forms of markup. >You are headed into a dead end, William.
Not to mention that libraries already have well-established standards for their data representation. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
