Re: call for examples: language

On Jan 31, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:
> If we use lang, doesn't that mean we're specifying
the language of
> the words in the hCite element, but not necessarily the
language of
> the thing we're citing?

Practically aren't these the same thing?

//Ed
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On 1/31/07, Edward Summers <ehspobox.com> wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:
> > If we use lang, doesn't that mean we're specifying
the language of
> > the words in the hCite element, but not
necessarily the language of
> > the thing we're citing?
>
> Practically aren't these the same thing?

Well, suppose I'm writing about a Russian book in an English
document
- I will mark up the month name in English, although the
book itself
is in Russian.

On the other hand, I don't think that covering that case is
necessarily in the 80% - for instance, we have no examples
that I can
see which mix languages like that.

-mike

-- 
Michael McCracken
UCSD CSE PhD Candidate
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On Jan 31, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Edward Summers wrote:

> On Jan 31, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:
>> If we use lang, doesn't that mean we're specifying
the language of
>> the words in the hCite element, but not necessarily
the language of
>> the thing we're citing?
>
> Practically aren't these the same thing?

Book titles and the language they are in are not always
identical. In  
general, messing with the meaning of lang is tricky, as UAs may
take  
that as a hint to use a different encoding.

Brian, I'm not seeing lang in the hCard or hCalendar specs on
the  
wiki. Or did you mean by in-use that lang has been used on
hCards in  
the wild to mark up language information about the element
(eg a name)  
semantically.

-Colin
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