FYI - update on ITS in HTML 5. This might need some action from us, not
only in W3C, but also in the What WG.
Felix
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I read through all the feedback on this topic.
There doesn't seem to be a really common enough use case for adding a
feature to the core language to handle it. However, I do agree that this
is something that is an issue for some authors and implementors. I would
recommend approaching the Microformats community and minting a class
value, possibly reusing class="notranslate" [1], to handle this.
I would also recommend not translating the contents of <code>.
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. It may make
sense to come up with a way to have external ITS files defining rules and
link to them from HTML files using a <link rel=""> keyword; if this is
desired, I would recommend writing up the semantics of such a keyword in a
separate document, and then listing the keyword on the WHATWG
RelExtensions wiki, so that it gets registered when we finalise the
solution for rel value registration.
[1] http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/helping-you-break-language-barrier.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/#rules
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