Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>Lou wrote:
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>><quote xml:lang="lat">Timeo Danaos<note>an archaic term for
>>Greeks</note> et dona ferentes</quote>
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>>Come on, try a bit harder.
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>OK, so <foreign> is really rather deprecated?
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"This element is intended for use only where no other element is 
available to mark the phrase or words concerned. The global xml:lang 
attribute should be used in preference to this element where it is 
intended to mark the language of the whole of some text element."

(/http://www.tei-c.org/P5/Guidelines/ref-foreign.html)