[tei-council] @xml:lang

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 7 Mar 2013, at 13:44, Syd Bauman <Syd_Bauman at BROWN.EDU> wrote:

> Oh. As I said, I haven't read the posts that lead up to this, but I
> had (perhaps completely incorrectly) been presuming that the choice
> was between changing decls so that either
> 
> a) attribute xml:lang { data.langauge | "" }
> OR
> b) data.language = xsd:language | ""
> 
> I.e., not asking whether xml:lang= should allow empty values (of
> course it should), but whether or not the *other* things that are
> declared as data.language should allow empty values, too. (I'll have
> to look and see what I think.)


that's a very fair point. I may well have jumped prematurely to b);
easy enough to change over, obviously.
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