Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

Text

Finally, there are a number of properties that relate to the appearance and functionality of text in your documents. Not all of these properties will always be useful; however, these properties can be of vital importance if you are working with a non-Western language, or for gaining finer control over the flow of text within your documents.

Some of these text-related properties include

• country— This property allows you to specify the country code for the document being defined. The value of the country should be the recognized two-character country code.

• language— The language property allows you to control the language being used to render the document. This property will not directly affect the character encoding; however, it may affect ...