Lou wrote:

> The global LANG attribute in TEI has a declared value of IDREF. This
> means that there must exist somewhere in the same document an element
> with the specified value ("sa" in your case) as the value of its ID
> attribute. The appropriate element to use is the <language> element
> inside the <langUsage> element in the <profileDesc> of your TEI
> Header.

This is what I needed to know. Thanks.

Chuck

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> The Guidelines recommend that this value should be taken from ISO 639
> or ISO639-2, but no SGML or XMNL system can enforce this: they can
> (and do) however enforce the requirement that you should specify in
> this way what you actually mean by using the code concerned.
>
> See further http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/CH.html#CHSH which
> includes a simple example (and some quite horrendously complicated
> ones)
>
> Lou
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 05:02:41PM +0900, Charles Muller wrote:
> > In the process of validating <title lang="sa">, my parser generates the error "undefined ID 'sa' referred to from attribute 'lang.'
> >
> > In this case, "sa" is the ISO 639 value for Sanskrit, but any ISO codes I use here generate the same error. Does the DTD need to have a line somewhere to associate ISO 639 values to be recognized as IDs here?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Charles Muller
> >
> > Toyo Gakuen University
> > Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJK-English Dictionary
> > http://www.acmuller.net
>
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