On Nov 14, 2011, at 16:43 , Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:07:44 +0200, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote: >> As has been pointed out, you can use >> Element.matchesSelector(":lang('en-us')") or XPath to test if a node >> has a given language. However neither lets you actually *get* the >> language of a node, just check if it matches a particular language. >> Additionally, matchesSelector doesn't work on text nodes. > > We already have baseURI. I suppose we could have another such thing. "lang" > is taken unfortunately. "language"? "naturalLang"? (Based on > <img>.naturalHeight/Width.)
Not to bikeshed, but how about baseLang? The link with baseURI, even if usurped, at least has a chance of sticking in memory. > I do not think its exact behavior should be defined in DOM4, but we can > certainly introduce the concept and say that other specifications define it. > E.g. HTML and XML. +1 -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
