Re: PaceItemLang created. (Add xml:lang attribute to atom:entry)

[Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:11:57 +0900, Martin Duerst <duerst@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I completely agree with Paul. I was a bit too quick to say
> "every atom element should allow xml:lang" because I wasn't
> aware of the fact that there are quite a few elements
> (rather than attributes) with completely formalized content
> only (such as ISO 8601 dates,...).

Of course. I was a bit quick too. All elements with content that might  
vary in language, should however, have an optional 'xml:lang' attribute.  
All elements referring to external content that may vary in language  
should have an optional 'hreflang' attribute.

The only thing that bugs me about this, is that 'xml:lang' is in the XML  
namespace, while 'hreflang' isn't. I think that both language definitions  
should reside in the same namespace. Would it be evil to have 'lang' in  
the Atom namespace? It would imho look and feel a lot more delicate and  
natural.

> In many cases, such as title/summary,... it would also
> be very helpful to be able to mark up language changes
> inside an element, with something like <html:span xml:lang='...'>.

That resides in another namespace, so I would assume that follows the  
rules of HTML, and would thus not be specified in Atom. Examples might be  
given, though.

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