[tei-council] Values of @xml:lang on <exemplum>

[James Cummings]

David Sewell wrote:
> Cases #1 and #3 seem clear-cut. The former takes @xml:lang="en", the
> latter takes @xml:lang="" (the latter is the explicitly recommended
> XML practice for tagging an element where you want to suppress language
> information, see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-lang-tag).

Currently the TEI Schemas don't allow us to have xml:lang="" (or at 
least in my quick test in oXygen).  This is, I'd argue an oversight 
since you suggest the spec allows it.

We define it as data.language == xsd:language.  So there must be a flaw 
in xsd:language that doesn't allow empty values.

-James
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Dr James Cummings, Research Technologies Service, University of Oxford
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