- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:00:20 +0900
- To: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>, Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
- Cc: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>, www-international@w3.org
At 12:55 07/07/02, Felix Sasaki wrote: >Mark Davis wrote: >> On 6/30/07, *Martin Duerst* <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp <mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>> wrote: >> >> Include <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-lang-tag>xml:lang in >> your DTD or schema to allow to specify the natural language of the >> content >> >=> >> >Where necessary, include >> <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-lang-tag>xml:lang in your DTD >> or schema to allow to specify the natural language of the content. >> > >> >[why? because an XML document that just has locale-independent >> information like inventory counts of part numbers doesn't want to >> have this. Ditto below.] >> >> Agreed, but the wording should be different. "where necessary" >> doesn't >> say anything specific. I'd go for a wording more along the following >> lines: >> >> Include <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-lang-tag>xml:lang in >> your DTD or schema to allow to specify the natural language of the >> content for all elements that may contain natual language. >> >> That really doesn't capture it. If your DTD doesn't have natural language content, there is no need for xml:lang. For both Mark's and Felix'es wording, it's not the DTD that contains natural language, but the actual documents described by the DTD or schema. >I would prefer Martin's wording and add after "may contain natrual language.": "If your DTD doesn't have natural language content, there is no need for xml:lang." So I would reword this as follows: "If an element is intended to never contain natural language, there is no need for xml:lang." This is just a clarification of the previous sentence, not really new information, the 'may' says it all. Regards, Martin. >The "may contain" is important since there are cases which depend on the actual use, like the <code> element in HTML. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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