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- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 01:23:56 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16190 --- Comment #3 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> 2012-03-25 01:23:55 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > I don't believe this is appropriate. See my rationale in comment 7 at > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16166 I don't think your justification there is good enough. (1) The point is that if one is to make an application/xhtml+xml document, then one isn't required to use xml:lang, if all one cares about is XML-capable HTML5-parsers. And so, the question begs to be asked: Why must I, suddenly, use xml:lang, it the document is supposed to be 'polyglot'? I agree that you, in bug 16166, 7th comment, have pointed out some reasons why an author might want the document to contain xml:lang. But I see no *must* in there - it all depends on how "naked" you expect the XML parser to be. (2) Meanwhile, in 16166, you suggest that text/html parsers should start to handle xml:lang. So, if that proposal were to be accepted, how would this impact on Polyglot Markup? My presumption is that you would like to be able to produce polyglot markup which contained xml:lang, without any requirement that @lang is present. (3) HTML+RDFa 1.1 is agnostic about xml:lang versus lang http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/#additional-rdfa-processing-rules (4) RDFa Core likewise says: "In XHTML+RDFa [XHTML-RDFA], for example, the XML language attribute @xml:lang or the attribute @lang is used to add this information, whether the plain literal is designated by @content, or by the inline text of the element:" http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-rdfa-core-20110331/ And so, I maintain that xml:lang should be optional. It would also be good to point out when/for what xml:lang is useful. -- Configure bugmail: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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