RE: [dita] Final xml:lang proposal

["Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 2006 April 04 12:59
> To: Michael Priestley
> Cc: dita@lists.oasis-open.org; Grosso, Paul
> Subject: RE: [dita] Final xml:lang proposal
> 
> It's also useful to have that language for people who do not 
> know the XML
> Spec, or are not very familiar with xml:lang. The question of 
> how to treat
> this came up in the Translation Subcommittee, which means 
> that it is not
> obvious for everybody in that group, much less to the world at large.
> 
> Would it help if we took out the word "contradiction"? So, 
> something like
> "In the case where the xml:lang value on a topicref does not match the
> xml:lang value on a topic, the value on the topic takes 
> precedence." We
> could also add a sentence to the effect that this follows the defined
> behavior for xml:lang, if that helps.
> 

That would probably work for me.

paul