I think you are confusing the effect of xml:base and xml:lang with actual instances of the attribute.
The attributes xml:base and xml:lang do not get magically reproduced on all children, thus your xpath is correctly not finding xml:lang on child elements where it was not explicitly added. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/ Section 2.12 "A special attribute named xml:lang may be inserted in documents to specify the language used in the contents and attribute values of any element in an XML document." Like xml:base this puts the burden on the processor to implement the inheritance of the *property* specified by xml:lang ... but does not physically add new attributes in the XML. ---------------------------------------- David A. Lee d...@calldei.com http://www.xmlsh.org -----Original Message----- From: polymorphisme [mailto:webmas...@polymorphisme.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:40 AM To: j-users@xerces.apache.org Subject: RE: XInclude and xml:lang I have not understand why I obtain <bar xml:base="file.xml" xml:lang=""/>, like this : <foo xml:lang="fr" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";> <bar xml:base="file.xml" xml:lang=""/> </foo> It's no very logic. For example, with XPath, //bar/xml:lang return something like this : ""; so what in fact, the langage's bar is "fr". Why I haven't or can't obtain something like this : <foo xml:lang="fr" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";> <bar xml:base="file.xml"/> </foo> or this : <foo xml:lang="fr" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";> <bar xml:base="file.xml" xml:lang="fr"/> </foo> Thanks for your responce. DALDEI wrote: > > On which element did you get xml:lang="" > > ---------------------------------------- > David A. Lee > d...@calldei.com > http://www.xmlsh.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: polymorphisme [mailto:webmas...@polymorphisme.org] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 2:23 PM > To: j-users@xerces.apache.org > Subject: XInclude and xml:lang > > > My question is very simple. > I have a main file : > <foo xml:lang="fr" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";> > <xi:include href="file.xml"/> > </foo> > > and the file.xml : <bar/> > > When I do a test with the exemple sax.Writer, I obtain the attribut > xml:lang="" ! > Why I can't obtain xml:lang="fr" ou nothing since I have foo xml:lang="fr" > ? > > sax.Writer -xi src/resources/xerces/xerces-xi.xml > <foo xml:lang="fr" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";> > <bar xml:base="file.xml" xml:lang=""/> > </foo> > > Regard. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/XInclude-and-xml%3Alang-tp34533941p34533941.html > Sent from the Xerces - J - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/XInclude-and-xml%3Alang-tp34533941p34537130.html Sent from the Xerces - J - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org
