Re: RDFa, XHTML1.1 and @lang (via Twitter)

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

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