- From: Leroy Finn <finnle@tcd.ie>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:09:46 +0000
- To: Arle Lommel <arle.lommel@dfki.de>
- Cc: Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>, "<public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org>" <public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAMYWBwu784Q_TyGmf6eXuafJLx+HVtdoYNYEuKHcSmgRRm9=ew@mail.gmail.com>
Okay I will add this test file today based on this discussion. Leroy On 28 January 2013 21:32, Arle Lommel <arle.lommel@dfki.de> wrote: > 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 <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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