[uf-discuss] [hCite] call for examples: language

[Brian Suda]

On 1/31/07, Michael McCracken <michael.mccracken at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to hear some discussion on the language field for hCite.
> I think it is useful, but it has two things going against it for me:
>
> - many citation formats have supported useful work without storing the language
> (I've never had 'language' in a bibtex entry, nor seen it written in a
> list of references - even when it is obviously not the same language
> as the referring page/paper.)
>
> - We only have two examples of pages marking up the language on the
> web - W3C and Amazon.com.
>
> The second point is why I'm writing this - I am happy to admit that
> it's useful to be able to mark up the language, and I'd have no
> problem with 'language' as an optional field in hCite, but if there
> are no other examples to be found, that suggests to me that maybe it's
> not really necessary.
>
> I'm open to the thought that Amazon alone is enough examples, because
> of its size, but I'm not totally sold on that.
>
> So - if you feel that hCite needs a language field, please find
> relevant examples from the web and add them to the wiki, then point to
> them in this thread.


--- HTML gives us a mechanism for determining the language. the @lang
attribute or @xml:lang. Both of these are in use already with hCard
and hCalendar. It would make sense to simply extend them to hCite as
well.

-brian

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brian suda
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