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

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Apr 30 09:44:19 EDT 2009


David Sewell wrote:
> No, there's not a flaw in the xsd:language data type; it is defined as
> "the set of all strings that are valid language identifiers as defined
> [RFC 3066]". Empty string is therefore not allowed. Instead we need to
> change the definition of @xml:lang to allow a choice between empty and
> xsd:language, probably:
>
>               <choice>
>                 <empty/>
>                 <data type="language"/>
>               </choice>
>
> If we make this change, we will need to update the Guidelines language.
>   
doesnt that make our docs non-interoperable with
other systems, which have expectations about @xml:lang?

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