- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 13:56:59 +0900
- To: "Michael Kay" <mhk@mhk.me.uk>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
- Cc: <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>, "'Liam Quin'" <liam@w3.org>
Hello Michael, At 17:52 04/05/06 +0100, Michael Kay wrote: > > We have earlier sent comments on the Data Model and on XSLT > > where we have urged better support for the inheritance of > > xml:lang (or for inherited attributes in general). Without > > any such support, it is extremely tedious to write a > > transformation or query that adequately copies xml:lang > > from the input to the output. > >I have been monitoring questions and answers on the xsl-list (at one time >there were 100 a day) for five years now, and I have not once seen a >complaint about this from a user. It might be difficult in theory, but I >don't think it is a problem in practice. If you don't think it's a problem in practice, what about taking the xml-to-xhtml XSLT associated with the xmlspec DTD, and change it so that multilingual input is output with the correct xml:lang attributes (but without having xml:lang on every element if not necessary). Regards, Martin.
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