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Subject: Re: [dita] Proposed changes to the xml:lang proposal
Grosso, Paul wrote: > That is why I think saying "the language...should be indicated > via markup" is misleading, because is the string itself (as > well as its language) that needs to be indicated via markup. And just to be a bit more pedantic, I think it would be clearer and more accurate to say "text" instead of "string". While the XML data is held as strings of characters, semantically when you talk about *language" you are dealing with "text" rather than strings of characters. I would think that the clearest statement would be something like: "As a matter of practice, text that is in a language different from the base language of its container should be contained in XML markup that uses the xml:lang= attribute to indicate the text's national language." Cheers, Eliot -- W. Eliot Kimber Professional Services Innodata Isogen 9390 Research Blvd, #410 Austin, TX 78759 (512) 372-8841 ekimber@innodata-isogen.com www.innodata-isogen.com
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