[Bug 5003] Applicability of <alternative> element to xml:lang

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=5003





------- Comment #24 from petexmldev@codalogic.com  2008-02-19 12:01 -------
(In reply to comment #22)
> ...it might be set either by the user invoking the validation with
> $language=de, or it might be set by the appearance of xml:lang="de" on some
> containing element.

I sense this is being put on the back burner, so I'm just dumping this here as
a place to store the idea (just in case what's suggested isn't implicit to you
guys from what has been mentioned).  Merging Noah's comment #6 proposal and
this from Michael Kay might lend itself to a syntax along the lines of:

<xs:attribute ref='xml:lang' validationParameterName='$language'/>

This would instruct the processor to put the value of xml:lang into some kind
of dictionary (possibly analogous to the ID/IDREF dictionary) such that
descendants could access the value by using $language in assertions. 

Naturally this does suffer all the problems of descendent validation being
context dependent.

Received on Tuesday, 19 February 2008 12:01:14 UTC