- From: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:17:19 +0000
Hi,
From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
>BTW, the spec also says: "If both the xml:lang attribute and the lang
>attribute are set, user agents must use the xml:lang attribute, and the
>lang attribute must be ignored for the purposes of determining the
>element's language."
>
>Shouldn't lang take precedence in HTML?
According to the terminology [1] "xml:lang" means the lang attribute in the
XML namespace. You can have it in HTML documents with script:
<!doctype html>
<html lang=x-fail>
<title>xml:lang vs lang</title>
<style>
html:lang(x-pass) { background:lime; }
html:lang(x-fail) { background:red; }
</style>
<p>FAIL (script did not run).
<script>
document.documentElement.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace",
"lang", "x-pass");
document.body.firstChild.firstChild.data = "This page should have a
green background.";
</script>
Why should the lang attribute (in the null namespace) take precedence in
HTML?
[1] http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#terminology
Regards,
Simon Pieters
Received on Saturday, 11 March 2006 06:17:19 UTC