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Bug 8983 - Section 4.1 is unclear about language requirements
Summary: Section 4.1 is unclear about language requirements
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML+RDFa (editor: Manu Sporny) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Manu Sporny
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/#specify...
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Reported: 2010-02-14 06:47 UTC by Maciej Stachowiak
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:06 UTC (History)
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Description Maciej Stachowiak 2010-02-14 06:47:39 UTC
Section 4.1 says:

"The lang attribute must be processed in the same manner as the xml:lang attribute is in the XHTML+RDFa specification, Section 5.5: Sequence, step #3.

The rules for determining the language of a node are specified in the section titled The lang and xml:lang attributes in the HTML5 specification."

It's unclear if this means lang and xml:lang must both be processed, only lang must be processed, or processors are always supposed to use the HTML5 definition of "the language of a node". Please clarify which is required. I assume the intent is that wherever XHTML+RDFa says to look at xml:lang, XHTML+RDFa processors must instead use the HTML5 definition of "the language of a node".
Comment 1 Manu Sporny 2010-02-16 04:24:32 UTC
RDFA-SPEC-SECTIONS [specifying-the-language-for-a-literal]
Comment 2 Manu Sporny 2010-05-04 00:24:54 UTC
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Status: Fixed

Change Description: 

Added text to clarify that the HTML5 definition of "the language of a node" should be used to specify the language of a literal:

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/rdfa/drafts/ED-rdfa-in-html-20100503/Overview.html.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3&f=h

"""
RDFa Core 1.1 allows for the current language to be specified by the Host Language. In order for RDFa Processors to conform to this specification, they must use the mechanism described in The lang and xml:lang attributes section of the [HTML5] specification to determine the language of a node.
"""

Rationale:

The intent was always to use the same mechanism that HTML5 used to determine the language of a node. This re-wording hopefully clarifies that intent.
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:06:01 UTC
mass-move component to LC1