>> The xml parser is meant to use it to filter elements, hiding them them
>> from the receiving application as if they didn't exist.
>
> What fevered imagination did that notion spring from? It's true that
> parsers aren't (by an accident of wording) required to report elements,
> but there is no hint in the XML Rec (where xml:lang is defined) or any
> other recommendation of anything like this.
uuhh, I may have 'misremembered' that, I think from the widget spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/
There was definitely a time when you could do:
<node xml:lang="en">yes</node>
<node xml:lang="fr">oui</node>
...and the receiving application would get the elements filtered by the lang.
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Andrew Welch
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