[osis-core] Three letter ISO codes are not valid values in xml:lang

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,

Actually xml:lang only recognizes two letter codes (ISO-639) and INANA 
codes (prefix "i-") and, of course (probably where we got it) anything 
following "x-".

Built-in limitation of the XML Spec. (Actually had to look it since most 
of the stuff I am concerned with is always "x-".)

 From the XML 1.0 (Second Edition spec):

> 2.12 Language Identification
> 
> In document processing, it is often useful to identify the natural or
> formal language in which the content is written. A special attribute
> named xml:lang may be inserted in documents to specify the language
> used in the contents and attribute values of any element in an XML
> document. In valid documents, this attribute, like any other, must be
> declared if it is used. The values of the attribute are language
> identifiers as defined by [IETF RFC 1766], Tags for the Identification
> of Languages, or its successor on the IETF Standards Track.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick



Todd Tillinghast wrote:
> I tried putting xml:lang="grc" in <osisText> and the valuator says it is
> invalid.  Am I doing something wrong or is there a schema issue?
> 
> Todd
> 
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