ISSUE-6

xml:lang

State:
CLOSED
Product:
RDFa
Raised by:
Ben Adida
Opened on:
2007-01-30
Description:
In the RDFa Syntax document (cf. http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/RDFa/syntax/), 
xml:lang is discarded for XML literals. While this may have been okay for 
RDF/XML, it's much worse for XHTML, which should be treated with "more 
respect." The fix for this may involve adding an extra SPAN or DIV as 
appropriate to XML literals. 

Likely dependent on ISSUE-97:
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/97
Related emails:
  1. meeting record: 2007-06-21 RDFa Telecon (from swick@w3.org on 2007-06-21)

Related notes:

2008-02-19: The 2007-08-23 telecon resolved [[ RESOLUTION: @lang is not part of XHTML1.1, @xml:lang is, so we resolve that XHTML1.1+RDFa will only support @xml:lang. ]] http://www.w3.org/2007/08/23-rdfa-minutes#item01

2008-03-12: added argument for relating this to ISSUE-97: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2008Mar/0155.html

2008-04-30: CLOSED, since it is resolved.