Re: [office] Proposal for language tags according to RFC 4646

[Eike Rathke <erack@sun.com>]

Hi Dave,

On Tuesday, 2006-11-28 13:32:15 +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:

> >The question now is how to do it in the schema.
> 
>  public static String langtag="("+language+
>    "(-"+script+")?"+
>    "(-"+region+")?"+
>    "(-"+variant +")?"+
>    "(-"+extension + ")?"+
>    "(-"+privateuse+")?)|"+irregulars;

Well, yes, that almost does it for a language tag string. Note that
variant and extension in RFC 4646 have zero or more occurrences though,
not only zero or one. That IMHO makes it difficult (or impossible? I'm
not an expert there) to express them as attributes in Relax NG.

  Eike

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