xml:lang="" from Elliotte Harold on 2004-06-04 (www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org from June 2004)

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:23:34 -0400
To: www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <40C0A206.6080002@metalab.unc.edu>

I'm working on implementing xml:lang handling in XOM for XInclude. One 
thing strikes me as very funny. Suppose I have a document written in 
English that uses xml:lang="en" on its root element. Suppose this 
document includes another doucment also written in English that does 
not, however, use any xml:lang attributes. The inclusion process will 
create lots of unnecessary and indeed misleading xml:lang="" attributes. 
This seems unnecessarily confusing.

Furthermore, the addition of extra xml:lang attributes in unpexpected 
places may mess up validation, since most schema languages require these 
attributes to be declared like any others.

I still prefer giving no special treatment to xml:lang compared to any 
other attribute.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold

Received on Friday, 4 June 2004 12:24:02 UTC