Bill Sommerfeld wrote: >> So I think the list I referred to is rigorous. > > Country code lists are dynamic, at least on a year-to-year timescale. > >>From an implementation standpoint I don't see a problem with shadowing > that list as long as he continues to maintain it.
Sure. I took the list and lightly massaged it into a list of HTML form <option> tags, and that is then included into the select statement, so the list is centralised and obvious. >>From a specification & argument deflection standpoint we should > explicitly cite the text you quoted above as the authority for this list > since http://schmidt.devlib.org could just disappear some day without > warning. <%-- -- List of countries as an option list. -- Source: http://schmidt.devlib.org/data/countries.txt -- A country or territory is in this list if at least one of the following -- conditions apply: -- 1. It has an ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 (two letter) country code. -- 2. It has a United Nations 3 digit numerical code. -- 3. It has a country code top level domain (ccTLD) that -- 1. exists or -- 2. existed in the past but is still in use. -- The second reason is responsible for the USSR still being listed. --%> <option value="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</option> <option value="Åland">Åland</option> <option value="Albania">Albania</option> <option value="Algeria">Algeria</option> : : -- Alan Burlison -- _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
