- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:15:33 +0100
- To: xml-editor@w3.org
Hi,
I'm think processing xml:lang is a bit underspecified. It does not
really make it clear in erroneous cases such as:
<x xml:lang=" en ">
<y xml:lang="I am not a language tag"> What language am I?</y>
</x>
Does y then inherit x's xml:lang? OR is y XML lang in error, and treated
as if it was an empty string? I guess logically, it would be treated as
an empty string.
I know this is probably the wrong working group to raise this in...
but... if the influence of xml:lang is defined to be inherited, why does
the DOM not provide a way to get at an elements' language without
requiring the use of xPath? I.e., an attribute that would reflect the
value of the inherited xml:lang, like "element.lang", would be quite
helpful:
var y = doc.getElementsByTagName("y")[0];
alert(y.lang); /* returns 'en', spaces trimmed */
Kind regards,
Marcos
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Marcos Caceres
Opera Software
Received on Monday, 15 March 2010 15:16:11 UTC