[osis-core] lang inheritance....

[Todd Tillinghast]

Steve,

We can say in prose that you can't put xml:lang on a milestone container
but we would have to leave the attribute on the element because they are
used for both milestones and traditional XML containers.

May I suggest that for the cases where quotes are of different languages
from the XML hierarchy AND the quote container is milestones, that we
suggest that people add in <seg> elements to carry the xml:lang
attribute in conjunction with the other elements in the XML hierarchy.  

This is consistent with standard XML/xml:lang behavior.

Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Steven J. DeRose
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:20 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: [osis-core] lang inheritance....
> 
> Sorry I've been pretty absent on the list. But let me throw a small
> wrench into the works to think about:
> 
> Writing this indexer, I'm trying to get it to track xml:lang values.
> This works trivially for the normal element tree (well, after I add a
> couple lines of code it will). *But* -- how, exactly, is the language
> value affected by Trojan milestone elements?
> 
> Since XML defines the inheritance of xml:lang in terms of element
> containment, the value doesn't inherit onto the content of a
> milestone-delimited element. This is a potential problem. We could
> easily state that OSIS applications are also supposed to inherit lang
> through milestone-delimited elements, but I don't see any way to
> specify the real meaning of that unambiguously. If you've got several
> phenomena overlapping, just whose "lang" is in effect at any given
> time?
> 
> The Occam's razor solution (or perhaps, less virtuously, the Gordium
> knot solution), is to prohibit xml:lang on milestoned elements. Not
> so bad for chapter/verse, but could be real bad for multiply nested
> quotations....
> 
> S
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> Steve DeRose -- http://www.derose.net
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