eliot: Rewrote the note in section 7.2 to comply with request in bug 10152, comment 19

eliot: Rewrote the note in section 7.2 to comply with request in bug
10152, comment 19

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html?r1=1.69&r2=1.70&f=h

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diff -u -d -r1.69 -r1.70
--- html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html 17 Mar 2011 20:09:55 -0000 1.69
+++ html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html 18 Mar 2011 21:58:53 -0000 1.70
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
    <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img height="48" width="72" alt="W3C" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home"/></a>
   </p>
   <h1 class="title" id="title">Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents</h1>
-  <h2 id="w3c-editor-s-draft-17-march-2011">W3C Editor's Draft 17 March 2011</h2>
+  <h2 id="w3c-editor-s-draft-18-march-2011">W3C Editor's Draft 17 March 2011</h2>
   <dl>
    <dt>This version:</dt>
    <dd><a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html">http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html</a></dd>
@@ -768,11 +768,16 @@
    <a class="internalDFN" href="#dfn-polyglot-markup" title="polyglot markup">Polyglot markup</a> uses the language attributes in the <code>html</code> element to set the default language for the document.
   </p>
   <p class="note">
-   Whenever the <code>http-equiv="content-language"</code> attribute on the <code>&lt;meta&gt;</code> element specifies the language of the root element, 
-   then it is required to specify the language mapping of the root element.
+   Whenever either the <code>http-equiv="content-language"</code> attribute on the <code>&lt;meta&gt;</code> element 
+   or an HTTP Content-Language: header specifies the language of the root element, 
+   then <a class="internalDFN" href="#dfn-polyglot-markup">polyglot markup</a> is required to specify the language mapping of the root element.
    According to <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/semantics.html#attr-meta-http-equiv-content-language">Content language state</a> in [<cite><a href="#bib-HTML5" rel="biblioentry" class="bibref">HTML5</a></cite>], 
    the <code>http-equiv="content-language"</code> attribute on the <code>&lt;meta&gt;</code> element specifices the language of the root element 
-   whenever its <code>content</code> attribute contains no more and no less than exactly one language tag.
+   whenever its <code>content</code> attribute contains no more and no 
+less than exactly one language tag.
+   Therefore, not specifying the language mapping of the root element 
+would mean that HTML5 would interpret this as setting the default 
+language for the root element, while XML did not."
   </p>
 
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