Re: XHTML+RDFa and @lang

On 29 Jan, Shane McCarron wrote:

>>   As for how to handle it ... would it not be logical to say that an
>>   HTML UA should take the @lang value as authoritative, and an XHTML UA
>>   should do the same with @xml:lang?
> 
> It would... except that we have no standing to say anything about how an 
> HTML UA behaves.  Of course that is how it would behave in the real 

  We don't need to. An HTML UA parsing a HTML document - in this context
  an XHTML one they think is HTML - will look in @lang. We CAN, I
  presume, say something to the effect that *XHTML* UAs should look in
  @xml:lang.

  So it really solves itself that.
  
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Received on Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:58:10 UTC