This attribute establishes the language used in the text it describes. This value prevents improper hyphenation for non-English content.
The lang
attribute performs much the same function as xml:lang
, but if xml:lang
is specified, the xml:lang
value over-rides the setting of lang
.
Note that because this is not an OEB-supported attribute, in documents of media type text\x-oeb1-document
you must use the xml:lang
attribute instead. In documents of media type text\html
you can use either lang
or xml: lang
to specify the book’s language.
A publication as a whole can have its language specified by the <dc:Language>
tag in the package-file, but the lang
and xml:lang
attributes in the component documents can override this package file value.
For a list of OEB-compliant language codes, see Metadata.
Syntax
xml:lang="language"
Associated Tags
all tags
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