Re: [dita] Proposed changes to the xml:lang proposal

["Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com>]

Grosso, Paul wrote:
> That is why I think saying "the language...should be indicated
> via markup" is misleading, because is the string itself (as
> well as its language) that needs to be indicated via markup.

And just to be a bit more pedantic, I think it would be clearer and more 
accurate to say "text" instead of "string".

While the XML data is held as strings of characters, semantically when 
you talk about *language" you are dealing with "text" rather than 
strings of characters.

I would think that the clearest statement would be something like:

"As a matter of practice, text that is in a language different from the 
base language of its container should be contained in XML markup that 
uses the xml:lang= attribute to indicate the text's national language."

Cheers,

Eliot

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