- From: Thomas B. Passin <tpassin@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 09:19:38 -0400
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Cc: xml-editor@w3.org
[John Cowan] > The W3C XML Core WG has decided to allow the value of xml:lang, the > attribute for indicating the natural language of character data, to > be an empty string in order to allow the explicit expression of > language-less text inside language-marked text > ... > Argument for erratum: It is just a single new allowed value for an attribute > that already got a whole lot of new values when we upgraded (by existing > erratum E11) from the obsolete RFC 1766 to the current RFC 3066. > For example, "haw" was an illegal tag under 1766, but refers to the > Hawai'ian language now. > It is not a $@#&% erratum, it is a CHANGE. It does not belong in XML 1.0. I think the W3C should start seriously considering the IETF model for RFCs - RFCs never get changed, only superceded after much discussion. Cheers, Tom P
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