Textual property value does not use language of the element

[gkellogg]

The Values section does not make use of the language of the element (as established using @lang or @xml:lang on an ancestor or self).

This could certainly pertain to the textContent of an element and potentially the value of the @content attribute. RDFa uses the current language when creating a literal from @content, but it could be argued either way.

Of course, the JSON expression cannot make use of the language, but it is useful to have in an abstract model for the purposes of generating RDF or JSON-LD.

[chaals]

It makes sense, if we put in how to generate RDFa/JSON-LD, to collect the language info there...

[chaals]

Is this a duplicate of #21?

[gkellogg]

@chaals I interpreted you discussion in #21 to be about more than @lang, more about the use of XMLLiteral (or HTML) in RDFa. So, the issues may require a somewhat different resolution.

[chaals]

OK. I think these are duplicates - my point regarding XMLLiteral etc is that while Microdata is weak for internationalisation, there is a solution based on shifting the microdata to RDFa...

Closing this as a duplicate, I'll take the discussion back to #21 in particular so the i18n people can follow it more easily.