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RE: [dita] Proposed changes to the xml:lang proposal

From: Paul Grosso
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:36:00 -0000

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Subject: RE: [dita] Proposed changes to the xml:lang proposal




From: "Grosso, Paul" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:38:25 -0400






OK, if we are removing this completely, I guess the point 
I'm about to make is moot.

But, no, you cannot "use the xml:lang attribute to identify 
the boundaries...."  An attribute cannot identify boundaries.
This is what I have been trying to say in this thread.  You
have to have a (non-empty) element--with a start tag and
end tag--to identify boundaries, and then you specify the
xml:lang attribute with the appropriate language value on
that element's start tag.

And I don't care if the audience is non-technical, you are
doing no one a favor by using imprecise language.  Attributes
cannot identify boundaries.

paul

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