Re: RDF/A and xml:lang on XMLLiterals

Mark Birbeck wrote:
> Jeremy,
> 
> I have to say that I disagree with this.
> 
> Firstly, I think it's incorrect to insert <span> elements since:
> 
>  (i)  That isn't what the author asked for.
>  (ii) It implies knowledge of the language hosting RDF/A (your
>       approach would fail if RDF/A were used in SVG or VoiceXML).
> 
> Secondly, what you describe is only a problem with XML literals. We already
> have a mechanism for addressing examples 'b', 'c', and 'd', and for 'f' you
> could just place @xml:lang on the inner span. 

One choice is whether this is part of the translation from XHTML to RDF 
or as to be done by the document author.

But I suspect we will need telecon time on this.

Jeremy