RE: Languages in XHTML

Having run several tests on the following test set I found it to be both
browser adaptive, case set sensitive, as well as Language Correct.  I now
find myself wondering if this will indeed work with other Language and case
types.  I am especially interested in the possibilities that might exist
where Icelandic/Norse sets could be used in conjunction with the English
Language to assist students in closing the written Language barrier.  Thank
you so much for this most welcome and little known tid-bit.
Mykal A. Luttrell Sr.
Crane Hydro-Aire
(818) 526-2510
"Member, International Webmasters Association http://iwanet.org"
"Member, HTML Writers Guild                            http://www.hwg.org"

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> From: 	Susan Lesch[SMTP:lesch@macvirus.com]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, March 02, 1999 5:15 PM
> To: 	www-html@w3.org
> Subject: 	Languages in XHTML
> 
> The works cited here are all work in progress and so it is difficult to
> talk about them. I'll try, carefully, because I wish to adopt XHTML soon.
> My Web site currently declares that each document is English, this way
> [1]:
> 
>   <html lang="en">
> 
> Early ISO-HTML used <BODY LANG="en"> if I remember right, and for the
> moment seems to have changed to [2]:
> 
>   <META CONTENT="en" NAME="DC.LANGUAGE">
> 
> Dublin Core's element set is written in English, HTML, and RDF, and as far
> as I know declares no language in the document except to explain that it
> is
> possible to say how to use the word "language." [3]
> 
> A NOTE by M.T. Carrasco Benitez [4] uses the META element differently than
> ISO.
> 
>   <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="en">
> 
> If I read it right, XHTML 1.0 so far asks:
> 
>          "...Use both the lang and xml:lang attributes when
>              specifying the language of an element...." [5]
> 
> Could someone please tell me if the following example is correct in any or
> every respect? Is it an XHTML document, and does it declare language codes
> properly? (The DTD and namespace URIs didn't connect yet.)
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/Profiles/xhtml1-strict.dtd" lang="en"
> xml:lang="en">
> <head>
> <title>Language Test</title></head>
> <body>
> <h1>Test</h1>
> <p>Hello. I'm part English <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">et
> Fran&#231;ais</span>.</p>
> </body></html>
> 
> [The following URIs are for reference only and represent "work in
> progress."]
> [1] http://www.macvirus.com/
> [2] http://purl.org/NET/ISO+IEC.15445/FinalCD.html
> [3] http://purl.org/dc/about/element_set.htm
> [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-html-lan
> [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-html-in-xml-19990224#guidelines
> 
> --
> Susan Lesch <mailto:lesch@macvirus.com>
>   Mac Virus <http://www.macvirus.com/>
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 3 March 1999 10:09:44 UTC