Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "ESW Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by 64.105.174.187: http://esw.w3.org/topic/geoFAQxmllang The comment on the change is: more editing to deal with GEO telecon comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ == Background == - Sometimes documents contain or reference different types of natural language content. Other times they need to describe natural language as a value in a data structure. Because there are different ways of referencing natural languages in XML documents, schema designers are sometimes confused whether they should use ''xml:lang'' or define their own language-related element or attribute. + Sometimes documents contain or reference different types of natural language content. Other times they are needed to store a natural language value as data or meta-data about something external to the document. Because these different applications use similar formats, schema designers are sometimes confused about when they should use ''xml:lang'' and when to define their own language-related element or attribute. For example, in XHTML 1.0, there is an ''hreflang'' attribute in the <a> element and also an ''xml:lang'' (or ''lang'' attribute, in the case of HTML 4.0) for the content of the <a> element:Received on Wednesday, 20 July 2005 18:36:37 GMT
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