[Ltru] RE: "mis" update review request

[Peter Constable]

It doesn't mean "it's not English"; it means, "I'm not telling you." Probably it's a safe assumption to suppose that the content isn't English, but that's an inference, not an explicit statement or a deduction.


Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Jukka K. Korpela [mailto:jkorpela at cs.tut.fi]
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 9:41 AM
To: ietf-languages at iana.org
Cc: 'LTRU Working Group'
Subject: RE: [Ltru] RE: "mis" update review request

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Peter Constable wrote:

> "" means 'I'm giving no information.'

Does that apply to its use in xml:lang="" too? That's different from
omitting xml:lang.

If you have an XML document with xml:lang="en" for the root element, then
any subelement is assumed to be in English by default. The attribute
xml:lang="" is the recommended way of breaking such inheritance. In
practical terms, it seems to say 'I'm not telling the language of the
content is but I'm saying it's not English'. Or should it be interpreted
as saying 'I'm giving no information except that you should not assume
that the language of the content is the same as declared for its parent'?

--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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