Re: XInclude language fixup

On Sat, 2023-02-11 at 18:32 +0000, Norm Tovey-Walsh wrote:
> Dave Pawson <[email protected]> writes:
> > Is there no inheritance Norm?
> > From the doc element?
> 
> That is precisely the question. The doc element has an xml:lang, but
> xx.xml is a different document. If I just slap it in
> 
>   <doc xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
>        xml:lang="en">
>     <p xml:lang="en">English</p>
>     <p xml:lang="de">Deutsch</p>
>     <p>Something</p>
>   </doc>
> 
> Then the implication is that the last paragraph has xml:lang=en by
> inheritance.

This seems reasonable.

> But the document that that paragraph *came* from *did not* specify a
> language.
> 

> 
>   If an xml:lang attribute information item is already present, it is
>   replaced by the new attribute.
> 
But there isn't one, so it isn't.

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