language

Definition

The ISO 639 language code for the target document, e.g. “en”.

Attributes

@code

Machine readable code for the entity being described. The value should be available on a related codelist.

This value must be of type xsd:string.

This value should be on the Language codelist.

@xml:lang

ISO 2 letter code specifying the language of text in this element.

This value should be on the Language codelist.

Example Usage

Example usage of language in context of document-link element.

NB: This specifies the language of the document being linked to.

  <document-link format="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" url="http:www.example.org/docs/report_en.odt">
   <category code="B01" />
   <language code="en" />
   <title>Annual Report 2013</title>
  </document-link>

It may be appropriate to repeat the document-link element if the document is available in other languages:

Note: This specifies the language of the document being linked to. In this example, the title element still uses xml:lang to declare the title in two languages.

  <document-link format="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text" url="http:www.example.org/docs/report_fr.odt">
   <category code="B01" />
   <language code="fr" />
   <title>Annual Report 2013</title>
   <title xml:lang="fr">Rapport annuel 2013</title>
  </document-link>

Changelog

Developer tools

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