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Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition
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Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition

by Robert Eckstein, Stephen Spainhour
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
32h
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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xml:lang

Synopsis

The &xml:lang; attribute can be used on any element. Its value indicates the language of the body of the element. This is useful in a multilingual context. For example, you might have:

<para xml:lang="en">Hello</para>
<para xml:lang="fr">Bonjour</para>

This format allows you to display one element or the other, depending on the user’s language preference.

The syntax of the &xml:lang; value is defined by ISO-639. A two-letter language code is optionally followed by a hyphen and a two-letter country code. Traditionally, the language is given in lowercase and the country in uppercase (and for safety, this rule should be followed), but processors are expected to use the values in a case-insensitive manner.

In addition, ISO-3166 provides extensions for nonstandardized languages or language variants. Valid &xml:lang; values include notations such as en, en-US, en-UK, en-cockney, i-navajo, and x-minbari.

xml:lang="iso_639_identifier"
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