[tei-council] whither HTML of Guidelines and @lang

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Just  a report

As some if you will have noticed, meeting the request for @lang in web pages destroyed the Guidelines,
since they are pure XHTML, and that whats @xml:lang. Easy enough to fix, the of course the resulting
pages only have @xml:lang which browsers don't grok.

three choices

   1. forget validating our pages against  a strict XHTML schema, let them fly like doves
   2. generate @xml:lang as per the purists and accept that its useless
   3. switch entirely to HTML5  and accept the concomitant work to get it valid and politically correct (believe me, this aint that easy)

last night I implemented 2., to stop the build failing.

A 5 minute experiment with 3. found that a) there doesn't seem to be a simple HTML5 validation, and b) support for all the p.c. details of HTML5
are lacking in my XSL

If people prefer option 1., thats obviously easy
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Sebastian Rahtz      
Director (Research Support) of Academic IT Services 
University of Oxford IT Services
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