Re: Translation control in HTML5

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Felix Sasaki wrote:
> > 
> > As has been noted, for more in-depth control, the ITS vocabulary is 
> > probably the better solution; indeed an ITS tranlation rule set [2] 
> > could be used to define the processing of a microformat formally.
> 
> Just a clarification question: Do you think that rule set should only be 
> used to define the processing of the microformat, e.g. 
> <its:translateRule selector="//*[@class='notranslate']" translate="no"/> 
> or also for describing defaults like what you proposed e.g. for code, 
> e.g. <its:translateRule selector="//code" translate="no"/>

Either, and also for defining page-specific processing. I'm just pointing 
out that the problem has already been addressed in more detail.

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