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From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:09:05 -0000
> xml:lang is all about mixing languages in the same file, 

I don't think that's entirely true. I think there was at least in some
people's minds the idea that @xml:lang could drive things like indexing for
search engines (both to choose how to tokenize and stem the words, and to
decide the relevance of the document to the user). It could even be used for
styling, e.g. to decide hyphenation algorithms. But of course there's no
reason to use xml:lang in the absence of such behaviour, and there's no
reason for software to do such things if people aren't using the
attribute...

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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