- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:13:20 +0300
- To: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Aug 19, 2008, at 10:54, Toby A Inkster wrote: > Isn't the following a little more of a grey area? > > <span lang="fr-FR" xml:lang="fr"> > > Might an improved criterion for conformance be: if @lang and > @xml:lang are both present, they must be equal, or one must be a > substring of the other, matching the head of the longer string. (All > case insensitive.) When the attributes conform to the previous > condition, the longer attribute value is taken to be the language of > the element. I think the spec shouldn't get that kind of complexity. The point of the conformance requirement is to allow exactly equivalent talismans. The purpose isn't to support elaborate DWIM. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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