[whatwg] lang vs. xml:lang; id vs. xml:id

[Lachlan Hunt]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> The spec tells us:
>> If both the xml:lang attribute and the lang attribute are set, user 
>> agents must use the xml:lang attribute, and the lang attribute must be 
>> ignored for the purposes of determining the element's language.
> 
> While the requirement for authors is pretty clear (HTML: lang; XHTML: 
> xml:lang), it seems to me that the user agent is asked to always favour 
> xml:lang even in an HTML context. Is this really what's intended? I 
> think this ought to be clarified.

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