@lang and @xml:lang in XHTML+RDFa 1.1

As most of you know, the XHTML 2 working group is in the process of 
adding @lang to XHTML 1.1 as part of its efforts to ensure that XHTML 
1.1 is maximally useful by assistive technologies.  Since we claim that 
XHTML+RDFa is a superset of XHTML 1.1, I believe we need to add @lang 
here too.

I am in the process of producing an XHTML+RDFa 1.1 editors draft, and I 
am pondering what the inclusion of @lang means for the processing 
rules.  To me, it makes perfect sense to say that @lang and @xml:lang 
both can define the language of an element, and that @xml:lang takes 
precedence.  This is what XHTML 1.1 says. Does anyone see a problem with 
this?

-Shane

Received on Saturday, 2 January 2010 01:32:45 UTC