Re: [CDR Framework] i18n comment: Language identification for child documents

Bjoern Hoehrmann a écrit :
> Well, if there is no explicit language information you have to guess.

xml:lang is explicit language information.  The issue is that the CDR 
spec should say that its scope extends to referred-to objects in a 
compound document, just like it deals with events, so that the CDR works 
  just like a CDI.

> I don't see why guessing just based on the language of the referencing
> element would necessarily give better results than guessing based on,

Did you read the little scenario I made up?  Don't you think that *not* 
changing the styling/behaviour when going from a CDI to an equivalent 
CDR is better that changing it to some random outcome based on guessing?

> say, n-gram analysis, or why interoperable results are more important
> than good results.

I'm afraid that specs don't define good results.  If a spec is clear, 
the authors can conform to it and expect browsers to give the good 
results that they intend.  The CDR spec currently does not discuss 
xml:lang (or lang from HTML) and IMHO it should say that it propagates 
across references and that it can be overridden just as it can in XML, 
plus by a HTTP (or other protocol) header.

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François Yergeau