RE: Headings and blue text for sections 2 and 3

The BP is not just about xml:lang.  That's the prime reason for changing the
heading.  Indeed, Felix's mention of metadata labelling adds yet another
reason to remove xml:lang from the heading.

Also, the headings are designed to reflect a general task which the reader
should be interested in, without proposing the solution.  Natural language
labelling is that task - introducing xml:lang is introducing the solution
into the question.

No change made.

Cheers,
RI

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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-i18n-its-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-i18n-its-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Felix Sasaki
> Sent: 04 December 2007 01:49
> To: Yves Savourel
> Cc: public-i18n-its@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Headings and blue text for sections 2 and 3
> 
> 
> 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
>

Received on Tuesday, 4 December 2007 14:28:07 UTC