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f.path = '../' // what you need to prepend to a URL to get to the /International directory

// AUTHORS AND TRANSLATORS should fill in these assignments:
f.thisVersion = { date:'2016-02-11', time:'09:40'} // date and time of latest edits to this document/translation
f.contributors = '' // people providing useful contributions or feedback during review or at other times
f.thisVersion = { date:'2025-05-20', time:'09:40'} // date and time of latest edits to this document/translation
f.contributors = 'Steven Pemberton' // people providing useful contributions or feedback during review or at other times
// also make sure that the lang attribute on the html tag is correct!
f.sources = '' // describes sources of information

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<p>Sometimes documents contain or include different types of natural language content. Other times they need to store a natural
language value as data or meta-data about something external to the document. Because these different applications use similar formats, schema
designers are sometimes confused about when they should use <code class="kw" translate="no">xml:lang</code> and when to define their own language-related element or attribute.</p>
designers are sometimes confused about when they should use <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-lang-tag"><code class="kw" translate="no">xml:lang</code></a> and when to define their own language-related element or attribute.</p>
<p>For example, in XHTML 1.0, there is an <code class="kw" translate="no">hreflang</code> attribute and also an <code class="kw" translate="no">xml:lang</code> (or <code class="kw" translate="no">lang</code> attribute, in the case of HTML) for the content of the <code class="kw" translate="no">a</code> element:</p>
<div class="example">
<p><code class="language-html">&lt;a xml:lang="en" href="xyz" hreflang="de"&gt;Click for German&lt;/a&gt;</code></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt"><cite>BCP 47, Tags for the Identifying Languages</cite></a> Specifies how to use language tags in <code class="kw" translate="no">xml:lang</code> values.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-lang-tag"><cite>XML 1.0 Specification, Section 2.12</cite></a> The defining document for the <code class="kw" translate="no">xml:lang</code> attribute.</p>
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<p><a href="/International/articles/language-tags/">Language tags in HTML and XML</a> Describes how to use language tags.</p>
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