Re: [XML Schema Datatypes] datatype for strings with language tags

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Jos de Bruijn writes:

> Has the XML schema working group ever considered defining such a
> datatype (i.e. strings with language tags)?

I don't believe so.

> Or would the XML schema working group be interested in developing
> such a datatype?

I suspect not (but I don't speck for the WG).  The guideline the WG
has used (not entirely consistently, consider e.g. the dateTime
datatype) is that XSDL datatypes are for simplexs, and a string to be
understood in a language is probably best understood as a pair.  XML
provides element/attribute markup for representing pairs, and other
things being equal that's what we would recommend.

> Alternatively, do you have a different suggestion for representing
> literals with language tags?

See above -- in my view it's not a property of a literal that it's in a
language, rather utterances have properties including medium
(spoken/written/...), transcription (a string), language(s). . .

I realise this is probably a critique at a level which won't help you
in your current predicament. . .

ht
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