Is it appropriate to use non-ASCII (natural-language) XML tags?

Posted by Vladimir Alexiev on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Vladimir Alexiev
Published on 2010-05-20T11:31:20Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 11:40 UTC
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Is it appropriate to use XML tags (element names) written in non-ASCII natural languages? The XML spec allows it (see Names and Exceptions), but I couldn't find any best practices about this at W3C and related pages.

What I'm looking for is practical advice regarding which tools support this, whether important XML-related technologies such as XSLT and XForms may have problems with it, etc.

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