Re: [office-comment] odf 1.1 dc:language value (unchanged as yet for 1.2)

[robert_weir@us.ibm.com]

Dave,

You fail to quote the complete definition, which I think answers your 
question:

According to ODF 3.1.15:

"The <dc:language> element specifies the default language of the document.

The manner in which the language is represented is similar to the language 
tag described in [RFC3066]. It consists of a two or three letter Language 
Code taken from the ISO 639 standard optionally followed by a hyphen (-) 
and a two-letter Country Code taken from the ISO 3166 standard."

The Dublin Core Usage Guide, 4.15 states:

"Recommended best practice for the values of the Language element is 
defined by RFC 3066 [RFC 3066, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ rfc3066.txt] 
which, in conjunction with ISO 639 [ISO 639, http://www.oasis- 
open.org/cover/iso639a.html]), defines two- and three-letter primary 
language tags with optional subtags. Examples include "en" or "eng" for 
English, "akk" for Akkadian, and "en-GB" for English used in the United 
Kingdom."

So I'm not seeing any conflict between what ODF says, what XML Schema 
Datatypes says and what Dublin Core says.

-Rob

"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote on 07/03/2008 07:55:52 AM:

> The manner in which the language is represented is similar to the
> language tag described in [RFC3066].
> 
> yet the schema calls up relax NG 'language' data type.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#language
> 
> language represents natural language identifiers as defined by by [RFC
> 3066] . The ·value space· of language is the set of all strings that
> are valid language identifiers as defined [RFC 3066] . The ·lexical
> space· of language is the set of all strings that conform to the
> pattern [a-zA-Z]{1,8}(-[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,8})* . The ·base type· of
> language is token.
> 
> Is it valid to RFC3066 or 'similar' to?
> 
> What's the conformance requirement for this para?
> 
> regards
> 
> -- 
> Dave Pawson
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