- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:53:42 +0000
- To: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hi Toby, > 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. Yes...indeed. :) Unfortunately (in my opinion), there was pressure to restrict the spec to *only* RDFa and XHTML, which means that there are weasle words around things like base and lang. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birbeck@webBackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)
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