RE: Common Core Components

Hello Garret,

the xml:lang is a special attribute in XML itself.
This special attribute may be inserted in document-instances to specify the language used in the contents and attribte values of any elemente in an XML document.
This xml:lang attribute based on on xsd:language.

This xml:lang attribute could be used in other metalanguage automatically, like XSLT, XHTML, XPath etc. If once a language is set by xml:lang attribute of an element, that language is applied to the content of all elements contained by the language-setting attribute, until it is explicitly changed
by another xml:lang attribute.
Many parsers and application interfaces interprets this exactly and automatically in that way, without additional mapping.

Kind regards,

	Gunther