- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:31:45 +0000 (UTC)
- To: ishida@w3.org
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 ishida@w3.org wrote: > > Comment: "E[hreflang|="en"] an E element whose "hreflang" attribute has > a hyphen-separated list of values beginning (from the left) with "en"" > > I think this should be made more generic, ie. replace hreflang with foo > in the pattern to match the surrounding text. Otherwise it appears that > this only works with hreflang. You could mention hreflang as an example > of the type of attribute you have in mind (but see also point 1b), but > my understanding is that this attribute can be used not only for > xml:lang or lang attributes too, but also in principle for other > attributes defined in schemas that use a similar mechanism for values. > > If this is not the case, and particularly if xml:lang and lang are not > to be used with this selector, that should be made much clearer. 6.3.1 > says "For lang (or xml:lang) language subcode matching, please see the > :lang pseudo-class." This is not clear enough to say that those > attributes are not relevant to this selector, and if my understanding is > correct, would probably benefit from the addition of 'also' before 'see' > to clarify the sense. The working group discussed this. We have changed E[hreflang|="en"] to E[foo|="en"] in section 2 per your request. If this does not satisfy you, please let us know. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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