Re: Programming language in programlisting

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> was heard to say:
| Lars Trieloff wrote:
|
|> I am writing a Saxon-Extension for Syntax-Highlighting code in
|> programlistings. My question is, how to specify the programming
|> language of the code in the programlisting.
|
| Cool! This will be great feature.
|
|> As I understood lang, it is only for human languages. The other option
|> seems to be role, so which version is better?
|> 
|> <programlisting lang="java">
|> 
|> or
|> 
|> <programlisting role="java">
|
| Definitively second one. Attribute lang is devoted to natural language
| code, role can be used for anything you want.

You can't use the former, so the latter is preferred. On the other hand,
this looks like a good reason to add a 'syntax' attribute to verbatim
environments.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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