Gary P. Grosso had written:
> I sometimes wonder if XML or some other standard will evolve toward
> some standard use of markup to denote different languages.
Mark Davis wrote:
> XML (and HTML) already give you the capability of marking language. Look at
> xml:lang. If you are using XML, you should definitely not use the language
> tags. See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr20/. (Martin Dürst
> (duerst@w3.org) and Asmus Freytag (asmus@unicode.org) are preparing an
> update which will be out some day.)
See also Chapter 8, "Language information and text direction",
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html> from the
HTML 4.01 specification (which also holds for standard XHTML 1.0
documents, cf. line 4 and 5 of
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd>).
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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