- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 17:08:47 -0400
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Cc: xml-editor@w3.org
At 8:37 AM -0400 8/2/02, John Cowan wrote: >By the present rules, there is no way to express the fact that the >content of the pre element is not in English. (Computer languages are out >of scope for RFC 3066 and have no codes.) > It should be noted that xml:lang="" is legal today under XML 1.0. It is not malformed. Its validity depends completely on the DTD, but it is not de facto invalid. A parser that issues a fatal error on encountering this would itself be incorrect. The XML 1.0 specification defines no semantic meaning for xml:lang="", but honestly xml:lang is one of the few places where XML can be said to define any semantics at all. I am not convinced that any change is required to the existing spec. The question of how to interpret the contents of the xml:lang attribute is one for local processes. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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