Dear all,

I am forwarding to you all a question from Jane Hunter <[log in to unmask]>,
who wants to know the correct way to use the XML Language identifier for
the MPEG-7 context.

Can any of you answer her question?  Please send any replies both to
Jane Hunter and to the list as a whole, as I am sure others will be
interested as well.

Cheers,
Tom

>The MPEG-7 people want to be able to describe the language of the MPEG-7 
>description using:
> - Language Code - code from ISO 639, RFC 1766
> - Country Code - code from ISO 3166
> - Character Set - IANA identifier
>
>Ideally this would be covered using the XML Language identifier:
>http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-lang-tag
>
>But when I read through the XML spec it appears that you can have either the 
>2-letter language code or the IANA character set code - not both. Can you 
>confirm this and if its correct, why have they done this? Is it possible to 
>define all three attributes using xml:lang or do we need to define a new 
>structure?

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