At 05:15 05/01/18, David Powell wrote:
>Monday, January 17, 2005, 6:11:22 PM, you wrote:
>> Suppose Joi Ito wants to list his name in >> Japanese but still write in English; or the the reverse. > >Let's hope he doesn't want to provide a name in more than one language.
Well, I can definitely imagine situations where somebody like him may want to do that.
>It isn't clear what xml:lang should apply to? Does it apply to email >addresses? Aural browsers might use it as a pronunciation hint. So >does a database implementation need an "email_lang" column in the >table or not? I think we need to decide on these issues rather than >leave it to implementors to guess.
I think spelling out in the spec which elements take xml:lang and which ones don't, and which attributes it applies to and which not, would help. Anybody wants to start a list?
Regards, Martin.
