i18n Polyglot Markup/xml:lang+lang (5th issue)

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This is a comment to 5th issue:

	5th issue: 
		]] No mention is made of the lang and xml:lang attributes. The 
document should say that both should be used when language attributes 
are used.[[

	Comment: Indeed, that is a very important bug. But, as the 
focus of this document is to be a _spec_, the document MUST say that 
both xml:lang and lang have to be used - none of them can be used alone.

		]]
		It may also recommend the use of the language attributes in the html 
element to set the default language for the document, and mention that 
the meta Content-Language element has no usefulness at all in XML for 
setting the language of content.
		[[

	Comment: This feels like, eventually, another issue. It also feels 
very "authoring guide" like. (And, it also depends on the outcome of a 
Change Proposal issue - but it seems that we much on the same page 
there.)

	Are there reasons to say anything special about 
http-equiv="Content-language" with regard to Polyglot Markup? Based on 
my previous testing, then all the dominating browser engines behave 
exactly the same way with regard to both http-equiv="Content-Language" 
and lang/xml:lang, regardless of XHTML or HTML parsing is used. So I 
think not.
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Thursday, 15 July 2010 21:01:08 UTC