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Building web pages with XHTML 1.1

15. Standard attributes

This section describes some attributes that are used in many different places.

15.1. The `xml:lang` attribute

This attribute defines the language used in an element.

In general, codes can have one of two forms:

xml:lang="LL", where LL is a language code. These codes are defined by ISO 639.
xml:lang="LL-CC" where LL is a language code and CC is a country code. Country codes are defined by ISO 3166-1993 .

For example, use xml:lang='en' for English; use xml:lang='en-us' for United States English.

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