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Subject: Re: [dita] Proposed changes to the xml:lang proposal
From: "Eliot Kimber" <>
To: <>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:11:03 -0500
Grosso, Paul wrote:
> That is why I think saying "the language...should be indicated
> via markup" is misleading, because is the string itself (as
> well as its language) that needs to be indicated via markup.
And just to be a bit more pedantic, I think it would be clearer and more
accurate to say "text" instead of "string".
While the XML data is held as strings of characters, semantically when
you talk about *language" you are dealing with "text" rather than
strings of characters.
I would think that the clearest statement would be something like:
"As a matter of practice, text that is in a language different from the
base language of its container should be contained in XML markup that
uses the xml:lang= attribute to indicate the text's national language."
Cheers,
Eliot
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