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3.2.3.3 The lang and xml:lang attributes http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/elements.html#the-lang-and-xml:lang-attributes For this much discussed paragraph: -- If none of the node's ancestors, including the root element, have either attribute set, but there is a pragma-set default language set, then that is the language of the node. If there is no pragma-set default language set, then language information from a higher-level protocol (such as HTTP), if any, must be used as the final fallback language instead. In the absence of any such language information, and in cases where the higher-level protocol reports multiple languages, the language of the node is unknown, and the corresponding language tag is the empty string. -- Wouldn't an example be useful? I can imagine implementers not following what the heck we're talking about.
Any suggestions of a realistic example we could add here?
This bug was cloned to create bug 17865 as part of operation convergence.
HTML5.1 Bugzilla Bug Triage: Example added https://github.com/w3c/html/pull/220 Feel free to tweak or offer suggestions/corrections. Will carry the conversation on in GitHub. If this resolution is not satisfactory, please copy the relevant bug details/proposal into a new issue at the W3C HTML5 Issue tracker: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/new where it will be re-triaged. Thanks!