- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:38:19 +0900
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: public-cdf@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4421FC0B.4040700@w3.org>
Mark Baker wrote: > My apologies (to you as well as the CDF WG) for not mentioning this > earlier, but please let us know within two weeks if our responses in > this thread haven't addressed your issue. No, my apologies: To answer a reply to a comment within two weeks is common sense, and I feel very sorry that we are taken so much of your time. Felix > > Thanks. > > Mark. > > On 1/30/06, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote: >> Hello Felix, thanks for your comments. >> >> On 1/25/06, fsasaki@w3.org <fsasaki@w3.org> wrote: >>> Comment from the i18n review of: >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CDR-20051219/ >>> >>> Comment 5 >>> At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0601-cdf/ >>> Editorial/substantive: S >>> Location in reviewed document: >>> general >>> >>> Comment: >>> >>> If you ask an SVG document about language information, and the document is inside an HTML document, the xml:lang attribute in the HTML applies to the SVG as well. It seems that the compounding specs should say: \"You should get the same results for both inclusion and referencel.\" >> The WG has just discussed this, and we feel that for the CDR case - >> which is all the current set of Last Call drafts cover - the value of >> the xml:lang attribute in any containing HTML should *not* apply to >> children, because it isn't authoritative (as described in the TAG's >> finding on authoritative metadata[1]) as a result of requiring >> multiple messages to assemble the compound document. Consider, for >> example, that the child document might be returned with an HTTP >> message which includes a Content-Language header (sec 14.12 of RFC >> 2616) with a (authoritative) value inconsistent with that specified by >> the xml:lang attribute. More generally too, content may be retrieved >> from multiple domains over which the author of the containing document >> has no control, and therefore propagating the value of attributes like >> xml:lang doesn't seem appropriate. >> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect.html >> >> Thanks. >> >> Mark. >> > > > -- > Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca >
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