- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 22:22:01 -0400 (EDT)
- To: tex@i18nguy.com (Tex Texin)
- Cc: duerst@w3.org (Martin Duerst), ricko@topologi.com (Rick Jelliffe), w3c-xml-plenary@w3.org, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org, xml-editor@w3.org, w3c-xml-core-wg@w3.org, jcowan@reutershealth.com (John Cowan)
Tex Texin scripsit:
> I am under the impression that using xml:lang="" today would be invalid
> XML.
> Therefore the document containing it should be rejected, no?
It's not 100% clear. The text of the XML Recommendation 2nd ed.,
as altered by erratum E29, reads:
The values of the attribute are language identifiers as defined
by [IETF RFC 3066], Tags for the Identification of Languages,
or its successor.
This does not contain the magic word "must", so it is not a
well-formedness requirement. Certainly validity, in the technical
XML sense, has nothing to do with it.
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