Andrew Cunningham 2008-05-08 10.04: > Hi all, > > 2008/5/8 Leif Halvard Silli <lhs at malform.no>: > > > This means that we can say xml:lang="mul" and encompass all the > > langugeas of the world. But not any two or more languages. With > > xml:lang="mul-en-fr" one coud be more spesific. > > There is a need to be able specify the intended audience of a > document, in HTML terms there is covered by the HTTP Header and > metadata in the document, which could contain multiple values. I'll > leave aside the fact that many user agents don't do anything > meaningful with that data, but it is possible to add the data. > > Doing something like xml:lang="mul-en-fr" would not be a good way to > go. The xml:lang attribute would indicate the language of the contents > of an element and should be a single value. Adding multiple vlaues > would affect inheritance of language values. It would effect > processing data and displaying data. > > At any one time you would not be able to identify the language of text > being processed from the xml:lang attribute. > By using lang="mul" I would say that that content was multlingual. That would be useful, e.g. via CSS. And I can't see it would break xml:lang, as you also mentioned. Adding "mul-fr-en" is just a more spesific tagging. -- leif halvard _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
Note Well: Messages sent to this mailing list are the opinions of the senders and do not imply endorsement by the IETF.