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Issue #43 of i18nCore comments http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0606-its/ The default for the translate flag is yes, so it doesn't need to be specified on <body>. A better example might be an extract from XHTML showing translate=no on the <head>, but overriding that with translate=yes on the <title>.
Action: working group to discuss and reply.
Discussed at http://www.w3.org/2006/07/26-i18nits-minutes.html#item12 Action: Yves to provide a re-write of the example 14. Example 14: Defaults for various data categories By default the content of all elements in a document is translatable. The attribute its:translate="no" in the head element means that the content of this element, including child elements, should not be translated. The attribute its:translate="yes" in the title element means that the content of this element, including child elements, should be translated (overriding the its:translate="no" in head. Attribute values of the selected elements or their children's are not affected by local translate attributes. By default they are not translatable. The default directionality of a document is left-to-right. The its:dir="rtl" in the quote element means that the directionality of the content of this element, including child elements and attributes, is right-to-left. Note that xml:lang indicates only the language, not the directionality. <text xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" its:version="1.0" xml:lang="en"> <head its:translate="no"> <author>Sven Corneliusson</author> <date>2006-07-26T17:34:04Z</date> <title its:translate="yes" role="header">Common Expressions</title> </head> <body> <par>In Arabic, the expression <quote xml:lang="ar" its:dir="rtl">ãÇ ÇÓãß¿</quote> means <quote>What is your name?</quote>.</par> </body> </text>
Action: working group to look at Yves proposal (in comment #2)
Resolution: accept proposal at http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3511#c2 . This resolves issue 3511 and 3512.
Action: editors to make the change and Felix to go back to i18n core.
Wait: response sent. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-its/2006JulSep/0335.html
Closed. Commenters satisfied see: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-its/2006JulSep/0362.html
Summary: The Working Group decided to accept the proposal and changed the example as desired.