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Content language

Capture each primary language of a book in a content-language element.

Identify a language by a single value, lower-case code from the IANA language subtag type list .

Capture a content-language element once for each language used in the document.

For monolingual books (i.e., if no additional primary languages are provided), capture exactly one content-language element. Capture its content as the code used as the value for the xml:lang attribute at the book root element.

For multilingual books (i.e., if two or more primary languages are provided), capture at least one content-language element whose content matches the code used as the value for the xml:lang attribute at the book root element.

Monolingual book

<book xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
                xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:lang="fr">
  <!-- additional elements inserted -->
  <book-meta>
    <!-- additional elements inserted -->
    <content-language>fr</content-language>
  </book-meta>
</book>

Multilingual book

<book xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
                xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:lang="en">
  <!-- additional elements inserted -->
  <book-meta>
    <!-- additional elements inserted -->
    <content-language>en</content-language>
    <content-language>fr</content-language>
    <content-language>de</content-language>
  </book-meta>
</book>
Release ID:
20260304
ID:
content_language
Author:
delvesc
Last changed:
Wed, 11 Mar 2026
Modified by:
bachev
Revision#:
3087