- From: Manos Batsis <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:50:08 +0300
- To: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Cc: <xml-editor@w3.org>, <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:37 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Cc: xml-editor@w3.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] XML Core WG needs input on xml:lang=""
>
>
> 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. Here's an example:
>
> <p lang="en">
> Here is an example of some C code:
> <pre xml:lang="">
> #include "stdio.h"
> main() {printf("Hello world!"};}
> </pre>
> </p>
Nice. <flamebait>How about using URIs for languages e.g.
http://www.foo.org/bla/pl/java or MIME types...</flamebait>
> Disclosure: I personally favor issuing an erratum.
I cannot agree; although it seems minor enough, it does enclose an new
feature and pretty soon people will want to do something like the
<flamebait/> above. I'm not saying this should be covered; just well
thought of.
BTW and IM(OT)HO, an xml:id would be more useful than this...
Cheers,
Manos
Received on Friday, 2 August 2002 09:49:26 UTC