<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Dear all, </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>May I take the liberty to trouble you with another one of my XLIFF-beginner questions? I was wondering about the exact relationship between the attributes "source-language" in the <file> element and the attribute in "xml:lang" in the elements <xliff>, <source> and <target>. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>1) When it says "The optional </FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xliff/documents/xliff-specification.htm#xml:lang"><CODE><FONT face=Arial size=2>xml:lang</FONT></CODE></A><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> attribute is used to specify the language of the content of the document", does this mean it specifies the same language as "source-language" for the <file> elements?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>2) If I have the attributes "source-language" and "target-language" set for a <file> element, would I still need to specify "xml:lang" for the sources and targets of the file's TU's?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If I understand the specs correctly, they don't enforce any mappings between these attributes. So, you could in theory have contradicting language settings, it seems. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers, </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=357013115-19092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Martin</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>