[whatwg] Map lang to xml:lang at the parser level
Simon Pieters
zcorpan at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 15 10:05:47 PDT 2006
Hi,
When parsing HTML and serializing as XML you normally want to change the
lang attribute to xml:lang. But why not put it in the XML namespace at the
parser level? Then when you serialize the DOM as XML it becomes xml:lang
automatically.
The .lang DOM attribute would reflect xml:lang. This would make it simpler
to set/get the language with script in XHTML (no need to use namespace-aware
methods).
I don't know if this is too expensive on the parser or if there are other
flaws but it's just an idea.
Regards,
Simon Pieters
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