- From: Arle Lommel <arle.lommel@dfki.de>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:32:59 +0100
- To: Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>
- Cc: "<public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org>" <public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <F2265087-8996-4AF1-91E4-5CB68B9B6988@dfki.de>
Anything else would be tremendously unintuitive for most users and would create strange problems. So +1 to Yves and Shaun. Arle -- Arle Lommel Berlin, Germany Skype: arle_lommel Phone (US): +1 707 709 8650 Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On Jan 28, 2013, at 21:21, Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com> wrote: > +1 on Shaun's comments. > (especially "...xml:lang to take precedence over lang only when defined on the same node") > > -ys > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shaun McCance [mailto:shaunm@gnome.org] > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 12:28 PM > To: Felix Sasaki > Cc: Jirka Kosek; public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org > Subject: Re: question on issue-110 (xml:lang vs. lang) > > On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 12:17 +0100, Felix Sasaki wrote: >> Am 25.01.13 11:19, schrieb Jirka Kosek: >>> On 25.1.2013 9:01, Felix Sasaki wrote: >>> >>>> we had discussed on Wednesday >>>> http://www.w3.org/2013/01/23-mlw-lt-irc#T11-36-22 >>>> that xml:lang and lang take precedence over the BCP 47 value >>>> conveyed by a "langRule". One clarification question: should we >>>> state that this relation also includes inherited values? e.g. >>>> >>>> <html xml:lang="en" ...>... >>>> <its:langRule selector="//h:p" langPointer="@class"> ... >>>> <body lang="ja"> ... >>>> <p class="de">... >>>> </html> >>>> >>>> In this case the output of processing "langRule" would convey "en": >>>> xml:lang takes precedence over HTML lang. And xml:lang inherits to "p". >>> My instinct says that inheritence shouldn't be applied here and for >>> p element language should be selected using langRule. >> Fine by me - so the output in the test suite would be >> >> /html lang="en" >> ... >> /html/body[1] lang="ja" >> /html/body[1]/p[1] lang="de" >> >> Now, if "p" contains a "span" element, what would the language be? >> Probably >> >> /html/body[1]/p[1]/span[1] lang="de" > > I would say certainly lang="de". I would also expect xml:lang to take precedence over lang only when defined on the same node, so I would expect the language to be "ja" on body. > > getLang(node): > if node/@xml:lang: return node/@xml:lang > if node/@lang: return node/@lang > if node selected by a langRule: return value from rule > if node.parent: return getLang(node.parent) > else: return "" > > Seems to me that's the same algorithm we use for all other data categories, except we don't define our own local attribute, using xml:lang and lang instead. > > -- > Shaun > > > > >
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