- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:09:55 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Simon Pieters wrote: > > Looking at how to determine the language of a node[1]: > > > To determine the language of a node, user agents must look at the nearest > > ancestor element (including the element itself if the node is an element) > > that has a lang or xml:lang attribute set. That specifies the language of > > the node. > > ...and terminology[2]: > > > Unless otherwise stated, all elements defined or mentioned in this > > specification are in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace, and all > > attributes defined or mentioned in this specification have no namespace > > (they are in the per-element partition). > > ...it could be interpreted that the language of the text "foo" in the > following document is "x": > > <foo lang="x"><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">foo</p></foo> > > ...which is probably not what was intended. > > [1] http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#lang > [2] http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#terminology Fixed. Thanks. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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