Franklin Tse wrote:
>> Yes.. but they're not asking those processors to do anything more than
>> what is currently already required.
>
> If developers of aggregators want to use dir="", I will be fine. But the use
> of dir="" in normal feed should be strongly discouraged... feed authors
> should specify the text direction...
>
Good point. I can add some language discouraging the use of dir="" by
content publishers.
> [snip]
>> I will fix this in another iteration.
>
> "in elements" may be better than "in documents" if direction guessing is
> allowed when dir="" is used in an element and inherited.
>
+1
>>> PS: In the example above, if the second entry comes from a source feed that
>>> does not contain any "xml:lang" attribute or "dir", aggregators have to
>>> generate xml:lang=""[1][2] and dir="" together. (<entry xml:lang=""
>>> dir=""></entry>). It is very problematic if only dir="" is generated.
>>>
>> Yep. Not sure if this needs to be discussed in this doc, however.
>
> Um... if your draft has a section called "Relation with the xml:lang
> attribute", then that should be discussed.
>
There is no such section currently.
> By the way, dir="default" or dir="unknown" seems clearer than dir="".
>
Clearer yes, but the empty string is more consistent with existing
xml:lang and xmlns conventions.
- James
