- From: Phillips, Addison <addison@amazon.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:11:15 -0700
- To: "mtcarrascob@yahoo.com" <mtcarrascob@yahoo.com>, "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
> > 3) The HTML attribute can contain only one language, hence one > cannot label multilingual files. > The HTML attribute can contain only one language. That's because any given sequence of human-readable (natural language) text will be in one language, even in a multilingual document and <html> is the outermost element in an HTML document (thus, the default text processing language for that document). Embedded elements, including <span>, are used to indicate runs of other languages. Hence all this discussion of the difference between the metadata about the intended audience of the whole document (such as <meta>) and the document processing language (which applies to spans or runs of text within that document). The language attributes of the html element can be used perfectly well with a multilingual file, but they do NOT declare what language may occur within that document. Addison Addison Phillips Globalization Architect -- Lab126 Internationalization is not a feature. It is an architecture.
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