On Nov 10, 2011, at 12:51, Mike Wacker wrote: > On 11/9/2011 3:35 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> On 11/9/11 4:32 PM, Mike Wacker wrote: >>> Since an item node for a disco#items query has a name attribute for a >>> natural-language name, does that mean that item nodes should also have a >>> corresponding xml:lang attribute? >>> >>> For disco#info queries, the potential need for an xml:lang attribute is >>> called out in XEP-0030, section 3.1 [Basic Protocol for disco#info] >>> (although it's never reference in the schema). But there's no mention of >>> xml:lang at all in section 4.1 [Basic Protocol for disco#items]. >>> However, it wouldn't be too hard to find a context where the results of >>> a disco#items query would be displayed to the user, which would seem to >>> suggest internationalization is necessary here. >> >> XMPP is an XML technology, thus xml:lang is allowed on any element. >> Naturally, we could add an example of that to XEP-0030. >> >> Peter >> > 4.4, Relationship Between an Entity and its Items, says that for one possible > relationship, "Upon querying an entity (JID1) for items, one receives a list > of items that cannot be addressed as JIDs; each associated item has its own > JID+node, where each JID equals JID1 and each NodeID is unique." > > But if we account for xml:lang, then we would potentially need multiple items > with the same NodeID but different languages, meaning NodeID will not be > unique if we want to localize the item. This is similar to disco#info where > (category, type, xml:lang) is the uniqueness key for an identity.
That would be a rather significant change to a draft specification. I know quite a few implementations that would break in there were a <item jid='darkcave@chat' name='A dark cave' xml:lang='en'/> and <item jid='' name='Anns dorcha uamh' xml:lang='gd'/>. Unfortunately, I think we'll have to live with the inclusion of an xml:lang identifies the localization of that 'name' attribute value, but not extend it in the same way as <identity/>. - m&m <http://goo.gl/LK55L>
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