- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:34:23 -0000
- To: "'Felix Sasaki'" <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>
> From: Felix Sasaki [mailto:fsasaki@w3.org] > Sent: 13 March 2007 19:28 > > I’m not clear whether the HTML DTD supports an empty string > value for lang. > > the XHTML DTD says > > <!ENTITY % LanguageCode "NMTOKEN"> > <!-- a language code, as per [RFC3066] --> > > so an empty value is not legal. > > > > If so, the presumably the validator needs to be fixed. If > not, then this is not a viable option, since you’d really > want both lang and xml:lang to have the same values. > > > > <!ENTITY % i18n > "lang %LanguageCode; #IMPLIED > xml:lang %LanguageCode; #IMPLIED > dir (ltr|rtl) #IMPLIED" > > > > it seems that both lang and xml:lang have the same > definition: no empty value possible. > > I did not check the HTML DTD. Aha, thanks for getting there before me :) That's what I suspected from vague memories of looking into this before. RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.10/720 - Release Date: 12/03/2007 19:19
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