[whatwg] [WA1] lang and xml:lang
Lachlan Hunt
lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Sat Apr 16 23:00:21 PDT 2005
Hi,
Web apps currently states [1]:
# Authors should not use the lang attribute in XML documents. Authors
# should instead use the xml:lang attribute.
Is there any reason for not making that "must not"? The only reason
someone would ever have for using lang instead of xml:lang in XHTML is
when serving it as text/html, which is strictly forbidden in this
version. It should be stated that lang is for HTML only and xml:lang is
for X(HT)ML only.
I think the heading for the attribute defintion should be updated to
include xml:lang as well.
[1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#lang
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