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RE: [Ltru] Re: Remove extlang from ABNF?

"Felix Sasaki" <fsasaki@w3.org> Wed, 05 December 2007 00:52 UTC

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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:52:10 +0900
Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: Remove extlang from ABNF?
From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
To: Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>
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>> There are no extlang tags yet, well-formed or otherwise.
>
> A quick web search shows several instances of extlang tags.  In many cases
> it seems that many of these "jumped the gun" with the description in
> RFC4646.  This includes several best practices docs and other sites.  The
> W3C's site even implies that zh-cmn should be used. (it does say that its
> "pending" but then pretty much describes extlang's as fait accompli.)

and this is the tip of an iceberg: We spend a fair amount of time to
evangelize BCP 47 with RFC 4646 syntax this year within W3C (not only XML
Schema WG), always saying "The ABNF is stable". I don't plan to go back to
these people to say now "stable, but ...", but if it can't be avoided ...

Felix



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