[tei-council] @xml:lang

[Martin Holmes]

OK, I'm #3 now (understand, and say go ahead).

On 13-03-06 05:13 PM, Syd Bauman wrote:
>> #4: I understand, but I think we haven't discussed it enough or
>> understood the implications properly.
>>
>> In particular, what does @xml:lang="" mean or do?
>
>     In particular, the empty value of xml:lang is used on an element B
>     to override a specification of xml:lang on an enclosing element A,
>     without specifying another language. Within B, it is considered
>     that there is no language information available, just as if
>     xml:lang had not been specified on B or any of its ancestors.
>     Applications determine which of an element's attribute values and
>     which parts of its character content, if any, are treated as
>     language-dependent values described by xml:lang.
>     		      -- Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)
> 		      	 section 2.12
> 			 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-lang-tag
>