[osis-core] xml:lang

[Chris Little]

Todd,

Yes, that is my thinking.  My only reservation would be that there are 
some diglots for which neither version can be shown to exhibit primacy 
over the other, so I don't think any xml:lang value would be correct in 
such a case.  But such a text might really be a pair of works in a corpus, 
so that their respective <osisText>'s xml:langs had values, but xml:lang 
on <osisCorpus> did not.

--Chris


On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Todd Tillinghast wrote:

> Chris, 
> 
> Assuming the diglot is represented as an OSIS document and not simply a
> rendering of two separate OSIS documents, there would be an xml:lang on
> the largest grain element that contains the specific language as they go
> back and forth.  I would also think it would be reasonable to put the
> "primary" language as <osisText xml:lang="primary language">.
> 
> Is this your thinking as well?
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
> > admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Chris Little
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:06 AM
> > To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> > Subject: RE: [osis-core] xml:lang
> > 
> > Todd,
> > 
> > If a work is a diglot, it might have multiple <language type="IETF"
> > use="base"> elements.  Monoglots should probably only have one such
> > element.  In any case, the value should match the xml:lang value on
> > the highest element(s)--<osisText> for a monoglot.
> > 
> > Note: Multiple <language> elements can occur so long as they vary in
> at
> > least one of: type, use, or the language to which they refer.
> > 
> > --Chris