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    <bug>
          <bug_id>16978</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2012-05-07 18:06:51 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>i18n-ISSUE-118: explicitly undefined language</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2015-06-17 02:58:03 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML WG</product>
          <component>HTML5 spec</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Windows NT</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>DUPLICATE</resolution>
          <dup_id>17864</dup_id>
          
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>editorial</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Addison Phillips">addison</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Robin Berjon">robin</assigned_to>
          <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-admin</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-wg-issue-tracking</cc>
    
    <cc>public-i18n-core</cc>
    
    <cc>robin</cc>
          
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    <commentid>67416</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Addison Phillips">addison</who>
    <bug_when>2012-05-07 18:06:51 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>3.2.3.3 The lang and xml:lang attributes
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/elements.html#the-lang-and-xml:lang-attributes

(lang). What does this mean:

--
If the resulting value is the empty string, then it must be interpreted as meaning that the language of the node is explicitly unknown.
--

Does an explicitly unknown language have any different effect? It might be a good idea to add text such as:

--
If the resulting value is the empty string, then it must be interpreted as meaning that the language of the node is explicitly unknown and any language specific processing that applied is implementation defined.
--</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>67573</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2012-05-10 17:55:59 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>I believe this is a duplicate of a previously existing bug with more discussion.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>70199</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="">contributor</who>
    <bug_when>2012-07-18 07:08:26 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>This bug was cloned to create bug 17864 as part of operation convergence.</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>121147</commentid>
    <comment_count>3</comment_count>
    <who name="Michael[tm] Smith">mike</who>
    <bug_when>2015-06-17 02:58:03 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>(In reply to Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson from comment #1)
&gt; I believe this is a duplicate of a previously existing bug with more
&gt; discussion.

Agreed. So, closing this one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 17864 ***</thetext>
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