[Comment on ITS WD] Example 19 xml:lang

Comment from the i18n review of:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-its-20060518/

Comment 46
At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0606-its/
Editorial/substantive: S/E
Owner: RI

Location in reviewed document:
5.6

Comment: 
Should this be identified by global rules as language information? If not, we should explain why in the language information data category section.


FS: The current definition 6.7.1. says "The element langRule is used to express that a given piece of content(selected by the attribute langPointer) is used to express language information as defined by [RFC 3066bis]." I would add a note saying 


"Applying this data category to xml:lang attributes does not make sense since xml:lang is already defined interms of RFC 3066 or its successor". If that would address your concern, please add it to your comment.


I18n: We propose a slight alteration to the above:


Applying the langRule data category to xml:lang attributes using global rules is not necessary, since ...

Received on Tuesday, 11 July 2006 19:39:42 UTC