Extracting the XHTML "lang" parameter.

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  • lucanos@gmail.com
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    Extracting the XHTML "lang" parameter.

    Hi All,

    I am toying with the idea of making a GreaseMonkey script, or similar
    (depending on how far out of my comfort zone I am willing to venture),
    which would translate a page automatically.

    In order to trigger that script and pass the correct variable to the
    translator, I am looking for a way to extract certain details from the
    current page.

    One of the pages I am looking at is XHTML, and I am wanting to extract
    the "lang" (or maybe the "xml:lang") from the page.
    In the source it is shown like this:
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de"
    dir="ltr">

    How would I reference that in JavaScript?

    Any assistance or references that you may provide would be appreciated.

    Luke

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    • Martin Honnen
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      Re: Extracting the XHTML &quot;lang&quot ; parameter.



      lucanos@gmail.c om wrote:

      [color=blue]
      > One of the pages I am looking at is XHTML, and I am wanting to extract
      > the "lang" (or maybe the "xml:lang") from the page.
      > In the source it is shown like this:
      > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de"
      > dir="ltr">
      >
      > How would I reference that in JavaScript?[/color]

      It depends on whether the document is parsed by an HTML parser or an XML
      parser, if it is parsed by an HTML parser then
      document.docume ntElement.getAt tribute('lang')
      document.docume ntElement.getAt tribute('xml:la ng')
      should do.
      If it is parsed by an XML parser then for the lang attribute it should be
      document.docume ntElement.getAt tribute('lang')
      too, for the xml:lang attribute you need getAttributeNS as in the following

      document.docume ntElement.getAt tributeNS('http ://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace',
      'lang')


      That way in an XHTML document served as application/xhtml+xml both
      Mozilla (tested with 1.7) as well as Opera (tested with 8.50) give the
      value of the xml:lang attribute.


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      Martin Honnen
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