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Best practices
The basic idea
Volcanic eruptions have literally devastated large inhabited areas. During the 1914 eruption of Sakurajima in Kyushu, 687 houses in Kurokami were buried in hot ash. What remained of this shrine gate, previously five meters tall, was left as a reminder.
Kurokami maibutsu gate  
(腹五社神社黒神埋没鳥居),
Sakurajima Island.
<image src="kk-torii.jpg" height="180" width="240"
caption=" Kurokami maibutsu gate ( 腹五社神社黒神埋
没鳥居), Sakurajima Island. " />
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Our final example in this section relates to a best practice rather than additional markup. The caption for the photo has been captured in an attribute value.
The problem with this is that it is now impossible to identify the Japanese text using xml:lang information, nor to apply the kind of bidirectional markup we saw earlier for Middle Eastern languages.
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