Re: [Comment on ITS WD] Language information dc overview

Hello i18n core,

This is a reply on behalf of the i18n ITS working group. See also
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3473 for our discussion .

Thank you very much for your comment. We agreed to implement it. Please
have a look at
http://www.w3.org/International/its/itstagset/itstagset.html#langinfo-implementation
.

We have made another modification as a reply to your comment at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-i18n-comments/2006Jul/0026.html
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3496 on standardized wording.

Please let us know within 2 weeks if you are satisfied. If we don't hear
 from you , we will assume this issue as closed.

Regards,

Felix

ishida@w3.org wrote:
> Comment from the i18n review of:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-its-20060518/
>
> Comment 1


> At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0606-its/
> Editorial/substantive: E
> Owner: RI
> 
> Location in reviewed document:
> 6.7.1
> 
> Comment: 
> "The element langRule is used to express that a given piece of content (selected by the attribute langPointer) is used to express language information as defined by [RFC 3066bis]."
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> 
> It's surely not the content that expresses the language information, it's the markup that expresses the language of the content. We feel that this paragraph does not explain its intent clearly, and mixes up several ideas.
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> We suggest:
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> "The element langRule is used to express the language of a given piece of content (selected by the attribute langPointer).The langPointer attribute indicates the markup which expresses the language of the content pointed to by langRule. This markup must do so usingvalues that conform to BCP 47 or its successor."
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Received on Monday, 11 September 2006 00:37:31 UTC