Locale Element
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Represents one locale.
Syntax
<Locale
language = "string"
country = "string"
variant = "string">
</Locale>
The following sections describe attributes, parent elements, and child elements.
Attributes
Name |
Description |
|---|---|
language |
string type. Length range 1-255 characters. This attribute is required. The locales language is listed in the encoding specified in ISO 639 http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt. Letters must be in lowercase. |
country |
string type. Length range 1-255 characters. This attribute is required. It contains the locales country, using the two-character encoding specified in ISO 3166 http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html. Letters must be in uppercase. |
variant |
string type. Length range 1-1023 characters. This attribute is optional. It contains the locales variant. Where there are two variants, separate them with an underscore and put the most important one first. |
Element Information
Parent Elements
Element |
Occurrence |
|---|---|
1 |
|
1 |
Child Element
Element |
Occurrence |
|---|---|
None |
Not applicable |
Remarks
The variant attribute is not currently used but is allowed.