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Subject: natural language
In thinking about the information that a submitter would want a user to know, the issue of natural languages has come up. Two questions: Should we specify an element that contains the natural language that the metadata is written in? Should we specify an element that contains the natural language that the registered-item (data element) is written in? I'm assuming that XML-related and SGML-related documents can be written in natural languages other than english? We could use language-code as defined by ISO639 and a subcode of country-code as defined by ISO3166. (This is IMS' usage.) --lisa Lisa J. Carnahan National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory Room 562, Bldg. 820 Gaithersburg, Md. 20899 USA lisa.carnahan@nist.gov (301) 975-3362 voice (301) 948-6213 fax
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