Likely genericode 1.0 impact on UBL genericode files

["Anthony B. Coates (Miley Watts)" <abcoates@mileywatts.com>]

I'm currently working on changes to the genericode 1.0 Schema after the  
first public review.  One thing that was noted by the committee was that  
genericode uses "xml:lang" to indicate in one part of the document what  
the language is in *another* part of the document.  It turns out that the  
semantics of "xml:lang" are that its intended scope is only within the  
element in which it occurs, so the genericode Schema isn't using it  
correctly.

This is my mistake, I was following a notional design rule of "if you need  
a language code, use an 'xml:lang' attribute", and it turns out that this  
rule often isn't appropriate.  The Code List Representation TC currently  
intends to change 'xml:lang' to 'Lang' to fix the issue.  However, this  
will impact the current UBL genericode files, which use 'xml:lang'.  If  
you want to comment on this to the TC, please post an e-mail to the Code  
List Representation TC comments list

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=codelist

or to me directly.  Thanks,

Cheers, Tony.
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Anthony B. Coates
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