Op 10-11-2004 04:46, schreef jij:

<Jeroen.Hellingman@kabelfoon.nl> writes:

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I use foreign exclusively as a holder for the lang attribute.

My problem with that, is it means there's no way to transform a document such that the foreign words are marked differently from the emphasized words, or not marked at all.

Well, the issue of course is that you first have to tag foreign words as foreign, and emphasized words as emphasized, now what if a foreign word is emphasized? The original typography will not always allow you to distinguish those cases. That is the core reason for me using <hi> instead of <emph> or <foreign> or something semantic: I don't always know the intended semantic. However, it is fairly easy to, for example, color all German words in a text green, based on the value of the lang attribute, or to print in roman all italic words in a certain language. Jeroen