- From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:33:11 +0000
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
The wording of the current RDFs syntax document is liberal enough to allow RDFa parsers to handle @lang already. (The DTD forbids the attribute to be present, but if we're going to get pedantic, the DTD doesn't allow xmlns attributes either.) In fact, depending on your reading of the document, it is arguable that handling @lang is already a requirement. Step 3 of the processing sequence states: > The [current element] is also parsed for any language information, > and if present, [current language] is set accordingly; Note the phrase "*any* language information". The document then goes on to say that language information *can* be provided using xml:lang, but it doesn't say that other sources of language information cannot be explored. I don't know whether this flexibility was intentional, but it is certainly present in the syntax document. Similar language is employed where it talks about parsing the element for URI mappings. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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