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Issue #28 of i18nCore comments http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0606-its/ GEO WG regularly has to clarify for people that language declarations and directionality markup are very different things - including a long and draw out discussion with DITA folks. It seems dangerous to introduce an example here that seems to the uninitiated to say that the language markup is defining the application of the directionality markup. In particular since the xpath expression probably doesn't need to go that far anyway for a reasonable example. It could just say /body/p[1]/quote or //quote[23] or some such.
Action: working group to discuss and reply.
Discussed at http://www.w3.org/2006/07/26-i18nits-minutes.html#item02 Action: Yves to re-write the example. I thought showing both the rules and the source document would be helpful, so we would have two files in the example: Example 29: Directionality expressed with global rules In this document the right-to-left directionality is marked using a direction attribute with a value "rtlText". <text xml:lang="en"> <body> <par>In Hebrew, the expression <quote xml:lang="he" direction="rtlText">áå÷ø èåá</quote> means <quote>Good morning</quote>.</par> </body> </text> [EX-dir-selector-1.xml] The dirRule element indicates that all quote elements with an attribute direction='rtlText' have right-to-left content. <its:rules xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" its:version="1.0"> <its:dirRule dir="rtl" selector="//*[@direction='rtlText']"/> </its:rules> [EX-dir-selector-2.xml]
Action: Working group to look at http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3500#c2 .
Resolution: working group agrees with Yves proposal. Action: editors to make the change.
Access to samples needed to implement the change
Action: Felix to make the change
Wait: resonse sent. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-its/2006JulSep/0321.html
Closed. Commentor satisfied. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-its/2006JulSep/0385.html .
Summary: The Working Group decided to accept the proposal and to change the example as desired.