On 29 Jan, Shane McCarron wrote:
>> As for how to handle it ... would it not be logical to say that an
>> HTML UA should take the @lang value as authoritative, and an XHTML UA
>> should do the same with @xml:lang?
>
> It would... except that we have no standing to say anything about how an
> HTML UA behaves. Of course that is how it would behave in the real
We don't need to. An HTML UA parsing a HTML document - in this context
an XHTML one they think is HTML - will look in @lang. We CAN, I
presume, say something to the effect that *XHTML* UAs should look in
@xml:lang.
So it really solves itself that.
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