# Adding category terms to locales.xml

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/adding-category-terms-to-locales-xml/399>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [January 4, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/adding-category-terms-to-locales-xml/399 "2008-01-04T02:53:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simon\_Kornblith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Simon\_Kornblith](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Simon_Kornblith)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/adding-category-terms-to-locales-xml/399/1 "2008-01-04T02:53:11Z")

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Any complaints about doing this? They are probably as useful to other  
implementations as they are to me.

Simon

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/adding-category-terms-to-locales-xml/399/2 "2008-01-04T05:34:39Z")

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Simon Kornblith wrote:

> Any complaints about doing this? They are probably as useful to other  
> implementations as they are to me.

What’s a “category term”?

Bruce

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**Author:** ![Simon\_Kornblith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Simon\_Kornblith](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Simon_Kornblith)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/adding-category-terms-to-locales-xml/399/3 "2008-01-04T05:50:12Z")

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> Simon Kornblith wrote:
> 
> > Any complaints about doing this? They are probably as useful to other  
> > implementations as they are to me.
> 
> What’s a “category term”?

Sorry, that was a little ambiguous. I mean:

```
   "anthropology"
   > "astronomy"
   > "biology"
   > "botany"
   > "chemistry"
   > "engineering"
   > "generic-base"
   > "geography"
   > "geology"
   > "history"
   > "humanities"
   > "literature"
   > "math"
   > "medicine"
   > "philosophy"
   > "physics"
   > "psychology"
   > "sociology"
   > "science"
   > "political_science"
   > "social_science"
   > "theology"
   > "zoology"

```

Simon

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/adding-category-terms-to-locales-xml/399/4 "2008-01-04T05:58:39Z")

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Simon Kornblith wrote:\> On Jan 3, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Bruce D’Arcus wrote:

> > Simon Kornblith wrote:
> > 
> > > Any complaints about doing this? They are probably as useful to other  
> > > implementations as they are to me.  
> > > What’s a “category term”?
> 
> Sorry, that was a little ambiguous. I mean:

I guess since those are essentially short-labels for URIs, and the  
natural language labels may well be useful in some cases, you may as well.

Bruce