RE: Common Core Components

["Stuhec, Gunther" <gunther.stuhec@sap.com>]

Hello Garret,

the xml:lang is a special attribute in XML itself. This special attribute may be inserted in document-instances to specify the language used in the contents and attribte values of any elemente in an XML document. This xml:lang attribute based on on xsd:language. 

This xml:lang attribute could be used in other metalanguage automatically, like XSLT, XHTML, XPath etc. If once a language is set by xml:lang attribute of an element, that language is applied to the content of all elements contained by the language-setting attribute, until it is explicitly changed
by another xml:lang attribute. Many parsers and application interfaces interprets this exactly and automatically in that way, without additional mapping.

Kind regards,

	Gunther





-----Original Message-----
From: Garret Minakawa [mailto:garret.minakawa@oracle.com] 
Sent: Dienstag, 18. März 2003 20:57
To: Stuhec, Gunther
Cc: Garret Minakawa
Subject: Common Core Components


Gunther,

I've reviewed the Common Core Components document (version 05) with the
OAGIS Architecture team and a question was raised about the use of
xml:lang.

Can you provide a written explanation of how xsd:attribute
ref="xml:lang" is different from xsd:attribute name="languageId"
type="xsd:language"?

Thanks,

garret