[osis-core] lang inheritance....

[Steven J. DeRose]

At 11:41 -0700 2004-01-15, Todd Tillinghast wrote:
>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.

Seems ugly, but that does cover it -- and there probably isn't any 
non-ugly way to get the full generality.

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