A page with content in British English. The xml:lang attribute on the html element contains the language and subcode for British English ("en-GB"); the lang attribute contains the language and subcode for American English ("en-US"). Correct language codes and contradictory subcodes for content in British English Christophe.Strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be en Copyright BenToWeb 2004-2007 2005-09-02 draft Specifying the language of content: the lang attribute

This test case is intended to fail because the primary natural language is correctly defined but the language version information is contradictory. Subcodes to identify versions of languages are not required but should be correct when they are used. However, tests may show that contradictory information on language versions is not confusing.

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Can you determine the language and language version of the text?

The browser cannot find the national variant of the primary language of the document.

The lang and xml:lang attributes in the html element contradict each other.

(In Mozilla 1.7.3, the lang attribute takes precedence over the xml:lang attribute, so the language is incorrectly identifed as American English.)