- From: Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:13:36 +0000
- To: Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>
- Cc: John Birch <john.birch@screen.subtitling.com>, "Glenn A. Adams" <gadams@xfsi.com>, Public TTWG List <public-tt@w3.org>
On 4 Dec 2008, at 15:54, Sean Hayes wrote: > In my opinion the best approach here is having the spec define > xml:lang solely for its intended meaning, that is to convey the > language of an element and its contents and not try and overlay some > other semantics in the specification, but allow interested parties > to do so via transformation if they so wish. I like that. The "xml:lang" attribute provides insufficient semantics for performing content selection: user-agents may decide to use it for content pruning purposes, at their own risk (at the cost of content reusability, due to discrepancies in interpretations, etc.).
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