Re: Use of dc:lang in XHTML / HTML

• From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
• Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:07:03 +0100
• To: www-international@w3.org
• Message-ID: <44A10347.3050902@hackcraft.net>

Richard Ishida wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience of dc:lang language declarations being used by any application that reads XHTML/HTML documents?
> 
> I'm wondering whether we should recommend its use.  I'd rather not add to the confusion over meta tags, however, if nobody actually uses such information.
> 

I'm inclined to think that they should be used where Dublin Core is 
already used, but since that element gives information there are already 
a web mechanisms for giving that there is little to justify using it on 
documents that aren't already being tagged with Dublin Core metadata.

Received on Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:05:09 UTC