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11/18/2011

XmlLanguage Class

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Represents culture information for use in XML and XAML markup.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
System.Windows.Markup.XmlLanguage

Namespace: System.Windows.Markup
Assembly: System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class XmlLanguage

public sealed class XmlLanguage

<object property="prefix"/>
- or -
<object property="prefix-subcode"/>

XAML Values

prefix	Language prefix, using the ISO 639-1 language prefix values. For example en, or zh. Uppercase values are accepted and converted to lowercase. This may also be an empty attribute, "".
subcode	If provided, must be preceded by a single hyphen. Then, a subcode as defined by RFC 3066. The most typical usage, and the one which is most likely to properly map to a CultureInfo, is a country or regional designation such as -us or -hk. Uppercase values are accepted and converted to lowercase.

The XmlLanguage type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	IetfLanguageTag	Gets the string representation of the language tag.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals	Checks for equality of an object to the current object. (Overrides Object.Equals(Object).)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for the XmlLanguage class. (Overrides Object.GetHashCode().)
	GetLanguage	Returns a XmlLanguage instance, based on a string representing the language per RFC 3066.
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Operators

	Name	Description
	Equality	Determines whether two specified XmlLanguage objects have the same value.
	Inequality	Determines whether two specified XmlLanguage objects have a different value.

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Remarks

The culture information may or may not have a registered CultureInfo present on the system where the XML is interpreted.

This class is useful for dealing with values represented using xml:lang in XML.

Note that the XML specification allows the empty string for xml:lang, although that is not permitted by RFC 3066; therefore, this type permits "" (empty attribute string). A default-constructed XmlLanguage behaves as if constructed with "" (empty string).

In general, the construction syntax for XmlLanguage in XAML and code parallels the constructor syntax for CultureInfo, at least in terms of the meaning of the input string.

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

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