Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> Actually, I'm not sure XML handles cases like (what's the language of A
> and what's the language of B?):
>
> <div lang="foo">
From XML point of view there is no language specified.
> <div>A
> <div lang="bar" xml:lang="baz">
> <div>B
>
> xml:lang precedence (even in HTML) has been a source of confusion and
> user agent bugs in the past (maybe it's still a problem in some UAs) so
> it seems better to let HTML 5 be explicit about it.
May be evil idea, but since during DOM construction all elements are put
into XHTML namespace what about moving lang -> xml:lang (if there is no
xml:lang already) for HTML serialization and forbidding lang in XML
serialization?
Jirka
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