+1 Ivan --- Ivan Herman Tel:+31 641044153 http://www.ivan-herman.net (Written on mobile, sorry for brevity and misspellings...) On 7 Jun 2013, at 02:42, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote: > I am willing to go along with this small wording change. > > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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 > > > > -- > Shane P. McCarron > Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
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