- From: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:21:49 -0600
- To: "public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf.w3.org" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
- CC: XHTML WG <public-xhtml2@w3.org>
(cc-ing the xhtml 2 working group as well) Just to keep you all in the loop: The XHTML 2 Working Group has been asked to re-introduce the lang attribute into XHTML family languages. Basically this is so that assistive technologies will correctly identify the language of content. It will also address some issues that arise when content is served up as text/html instead of application/xhtml+xml. The change in XHTML 1.1 will read something like: > <p>This specification also adds the <code>lang</code> attribute to the I18N > attribute collection as defined in <nref>XHTMLMOD</nref>. The > <code>lang</code> attribute is defined in <nref>HTML4</nref>. > When this attribute > and the <code>xml:lang</code> are specified on the same element, the > <code>xml:lang</code> takes precedence.</p> The plan is to recommend (suggest) that documents that wish to be portable specify both @lang and @xml:lang. In such documents, obviously the presence of @lang would have no side-effects with regard to XHTML+RDFa. However, it is feasible that document authors will create documents that do not use @xml:lang at all - relying solely upon @lang. We are not at this time proposing that this change be pushed into the RDFa Syntax Recommendation. However, I imagine that this will come up when we go to re-issue that spec. We have not examined what such a change would do to XHTML+RDFa - I request that the task force do so at its earliest convenience. Thanks! -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120 Managing Director Fax: +1 763 786-8180 ApTest Minnesota Inet: shane@aptest.com
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