Re: For review: Tagging text with no language

CE Whitehead scripsit:

> So then why is it better to use "" where you could use "und"?

My take on it is that "und" means "some language, I don't know which"
whereas "" means "some content, I don't know if it's linguistic or
not".

> You cannot leave out the declaration in such a case, because of course, 
> the language is declared for the document as a whole and/or for higher 
> elements in the document hierarchy,

Quite so.

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Received on Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:52:20 UTC