RE: [F&O] Protocol language information

This information is not available in the Infoset or the XPath data
model, so I expect the response will be that the lang() function does
not have access to it.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-qt-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
> Bjoern Hoehrmann
> Sent: 08 February 2004 07:03
> To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: [F&O] Protocol language information
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   XML 1.0 TE:
> 
> [...]
>   Note:
> 
>   Language information may also be provided by external transport
>   protocols (e.g. HTTP or MIME). When available, this 
> information may be
>   used by XML applications, but the more local information provided by
>   xml:lang should be considered to override it. 
> [...]
> 
> The definiton of lang() does not consider such protocol 
> information. Please include explicit information whether 
> implementations must use such information or must not use 
> such information.
>

Received on Sunday, 8 February 2004 10:44:58 UTC