Re: Language of a node and HTML+RDFa JavaScript implementations

> To mitigate this issue, we can make a minor editorial change to the
> specification that states that authors SHOULD specify the language of
> their document in the document if they want to ensure that all RDFa
> processors will be capable of discovering the correct language for the
> document.
>
> The premise is that there are not a large percentage of documents out
> there that are served in this way (it's a corner case), and addressing
> the issue is fairly trivial (specify the document language in the
> document itself).
>
> Peter, Alex - does that solution work for each of you?

Adding a note like that would work for me.  The Internationalization 
question
on this matter [1] recommends to "[a]lways use a language attribute on the
html tag to declare the default language of the text in the page", that is, 
within
the document, not in any HTTP headers.  So adding a note recommending
this would be sensible to me.

In any case, I hope that a DOM attribute to retrieve the language of a node 
will
eventually be added to the DOM specification.

--Peter

[1]: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-language-declarations 

Received on Thursday, 6 June 2013 17:16:41 UTC