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    louboumian

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    		Subject: lang attribute in xhtml 1.1Quote this post in your reply
    Hello,
    I get a "Known problem" warning regarding the lack of language attribute in my xhtml declaration.

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">


    The exemple given suggests to use lang and a 2 letter language code.
    When I insert that:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">


    ...I get an HTML validation error saying that:
    Attribute "lang" exists, but can not be used for this element.

    What to do?

    Thanks for any pointer!
    Posted: 2009-09-20 13:37:14
    greg

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    		Subject: Re: lang attribute in xhtml 1.1Quote this post in your reply
    Where is this declaration being used?
    Posted: 2009-09-20 13:46:31
    badeyes
    		Subject: Re: lang attribute in xhtml 1.1Quote this post in your reply
    Try using

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">


    cheers

    Geof
    Posted: 2009-09-20 13:57:21
    louboumian

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    		Subject: Re: lang attribute in xhtml 1.1Quote this post in your reply
    in an index file starting with:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">

    (I just reposted, I don't know what's going on with this forum, my Original Post disappeared from the list after I logged in again. Once I posted again, the original reappeared.. .weird)

    In reply to:
    Where is this declaration being used?

    Posted: 2009-09-20 22:35:31
    louboumian

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    		Subject: Re: lang attribute in xhtml 1.1Quote this post in your reply
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

    instead of

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

    ???

    They are exactly the same. This line is what I tried after getting the 1 warning. This line then trigger an HTML validation warning saying the lang attribute exists but can't be used here.

    In reply to:
    Try using




    cheers

    Geof

    Posted: 2009-09-20 22:39:16
    harris

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    		Subject: Re: lang attribute in xhtml 1.1Quote this post in your reply
    Hi,

    I am not sure why but your dtd is different than the one we use. Specifically, I have searched through our codes for "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd" and I can't find anything. I believe this isn't an ATutor bug.

    For doctypes and the error message you are getting, I suggest you to check these two links out. One for the proper language code, the second link is for using the appropriate DTD.

    Error message:
    validator.w3.org/feed/docs/error/InvalidLanguage.html

    DTD:
    www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html


    Regards,
    Harris
    Posted: 2009-09-21 08:58:20
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