- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:57:31 +0100 (CET)
- To: Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, "public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf.w3.org" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, XHTML WG <public-xhtml2@w3.org>
On 29 Jan, Shane McCarron wrote:
>> As for how to handle it ... would it not be logical to say that an
>> HTML UA should take the @lang value as authoritative, and an XHTML UA
>> should do the same with @xml:lang?
>
> It would... except that we have no standing to say anything about how an
> HTML UA behaves. Of course that is how it would behave in the real
We don't need to. An HTML UA parsing a HTML document - in this context
an XHTML one they think is HTML - will look in @lang. We CAN, I
presume, say something to the effect that *XHTML* UAs should look in
@xml:lang.
So it really solves itself that.
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Received on Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:58:08 UTC