I am willing to go along with this small wording change. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com> wrote: > To mitigate this issue, we can make a minor editorial change to the >> specification that states that authors SHOULD specify the language of >> their document in the document if they want to ensure that all RDFa >> processors will be capable of discovering the correct language for the >> document. >> >> The premise is that there are not a large percentage of documents out >> there that are served in this way (it's a corner case), and addressing >> the issue is fairly trivial (specify the document language in the >> document itself). >> >> Peter, Alex - does that solution work for each of you? >> > > Adding a note like that would work for me. The Internationalization > question > on this matter [1] recommends to "[a]lways use a language attribute on the > html tag to declare the default language of the text in the page", that > is, within > the document, not in any HTTP headers. So adding a note recommending > this would be sensible to me. > > In any case, I hope that a DOM attribute to retrieve the language of a > node will > eventually be added to the DOM specification. > > --Peter > > [1]: http://www.w3.org/**International/questions/qa-** > html-language-declarations<http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-language-declarations> > > -- Shane P. McCarron Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.
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