- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:11:23 +0200
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
- Cc: "'Henri Sivonen'" <hsivonen@iki.fi>, "'Toby A Inkster'" <tai@g5n.co.uk>
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:04:40 +0200, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote: > It seems to me that requiring sameness between lang and xml:lang > attributes > leads to: > > a. difficulty in establishing what sameness means with things like > lang="fr" > xml:lang="fr-FR" (which actually mean the same) [Note that in the future > there may be a requirement to see things like en-GB and en-Latin-GB as > the > same by BCP 47 matching rules] For the purposes of conformance you can just require them to be identical, no? > b. the question of what to do if they are not equal That's not a conformance question and is already pretty clear from the specification. "xml:lang" in the null namespace (not "lang" in the XML namespace) is just ignored. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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