Re: SVG12: xml:lang datatype

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Robin Berjon wrote:
> > I don't mind changing that but I would require a pointer to the part in 
> > WXSII that says xsd:language can't be empty first.
>
> Unlike Part 1 of XML Schema Part 2 is not unreadable, just go straight
> to <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/#language>:
>
> [...]
>   The ·lexical space· of language is the set of all strings that
>   conform to the pattern [a-zA-Z]{1,8}(-[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,8})*.
> [...]

You are correct. After discussing this with the Schema IG it appears 
that xs:language is not at fault (it sticks to the RFC) but rather that 
the description of xml:lang needs to be a choice between xs:language and 
the empty string, something which I will implement in the SVG RNG.

Note that there is a difference between 1e and 2e of the schema spec 
that makes the above lexical space description correct in the latter:

1e: "The ·value space· of language is the set of all strings that are 
valid language identifiers as defined in the language identification 
section of [XML 1.0 (Second Edition)]"

2e: "The ·value space· of language is the set of all strings that are 
valid language identifiers as defined [RFC 3066]."

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Robin Berjon
  Research Scientist
  Expway, http://expway.com/