- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:49:15 +0900 (JST)
- To: "Yves Savourel" <yves@opentag.com>
- Cc: public-i18n-its@w3.org
Hi Yves, >> "Defining markup for natural language labelling": >> This does not mention xml:lang any more, so it seems to be >> something different (not only more general) than the original >> "Providing xml:lang to specify ...". Just wondering if that's OK? > > Good point. I recall that we had something general original, and then > someone outside the WG made a comment about specifically using > "xml:lang" in the title. > > This said: I'm not sure why xml:lang would need a special treatment... I think this has to do with the role of xml:lang: it it used to label natural language for the document content, that is the attributes and children of a document. You might label natural language not for document content in that sense, but for other kinds of information. For these cases, you should use a different attribute. We have also the related note in the BP: "Note: If you need to specify language as data or meta-data about something external to the document, do it with an attribute different from xml:lang. For more information see the article xml:lang in XML document schemas" Felix
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