Re: SVG12: glyph language matching vs xml:lang

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:03:13 +0200, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:
> You can, probably the DTD is not able to check this because the DTD  
> language is not powerful enough, but the XHTML spec warns against doing  
> so and its contrary to the XML specification.

Does the XML specification forbid XML based languages to invent their own  
language tagging mechanism?


> AvK> ... using the lang DOM attribute on any XHTML element would also  
> result in
> AvK> "lang" being set if I remember correctly, but that's less relevant.
>
> Actually no, that one is more relevant. Do you have a specific spec  
> pointer handy?

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20030109/html.html#ID-59132807


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Received on Tuesday, 25 April 2006 13:08:26 UTC