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— Tamino XML Schema Reference Guide —

tsd:language

Purpose	This element specifies information about the language to be used. For example, give the `value` attribute the value "de" to specify the German language. For more information on internationalization aspects of the Tamino Schema Definition Language, refer to Collations.
Parent element	`tsd:collation`
Child elements	None
Attributes	`value`

Attributes

Name	Type	Description
`value`	`xs:string`	See description below.

Description of `value` attribute

The value of the value attribute is a string containing valid language and country codes. This string must be composed as explained in the section Collations:

A locale in the sense of ICU (International Components for Unicode) has up to three parts:

ISO 639 Language Code
The first argument is a lower-case two-letter language code as defined by ISO 639. You can find a full list of these codes at http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639jac.html.
ISO 3166 Country Code
The second argument is a country code as defined by ISO 3166. These codes appear in two different forms:
- upper-case two-letter codes (A2 code);
- upper-case three-letter codes (A3 code).
You can find a full list of these codes at http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm.
Suffix
A suffix can be specified for various purposes, for instance EURO for specifying a table containing a Euro currency symbol.

Note:
There is no difference in the sorting order whether EURO is specified or not.

In ICU, a locale is represented by one string that consists of a mandatory ISO 639 language code plus an optional ISO 3166 country code plus an optional suffix. Tamino allows two different styles for delimiting the components:

ICU style
The separator is the underscore sign. For example, German for Germany with a Euro sign is expressed as de_DE_EURO.
RFC-1766 style
The separator is the minus sign, for example: de-DE-EURO.

Note:
Locale names are case-insensitive. Usually the language part of the locale is lowercase, the country is uppercase and the variant part is uppercase.

For a list of available code strings refer to the section Language and Country Codes in the appendix.

Example 1

The following example illustrates the use of the tsd:language element within an element definition to define an element for an address that is handled as English.

<xs:element name = "address">
  <xs:annotation>
    <xs:appinfo>
      <tsd:elementInfo>
        <tsd:logical>
          <tsd:collation>
            <tsd:language value="en"/>
            <tsd:strength value="primary"/>
            <tsd:caseFirst value = "upperFirst"/>
            <tsd:alternate value = "shifted"/>
            <tsd:caseLevel value = "false"/>
            <tsd:french value = "false"/>
            <tsd:normalization value ="false"/>
          </tsd:collation>
        </tsd:logical>
        <tsd:physical>
          <tsd:native>
            <tsd:index>
              <tsd:standard/>
            </tsd:index>
          </tsd:native>
        </tsd:physical>
      </tsd:elementInfo
    </xs:appinfo>
  </xs:annotation>
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:simpleContent>
      <xs:extension base = "xs:string">
      <xs:attribute ref = "xml:lang" fixed = "en"/>
      </xs:extension>
    </xs:simpleContent>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>

Example 2

The same for American English (country = USA). Simply change the line:

<tsd:language value="en">

in the above example to the following:

<tsd:language value="en_US">

Example 3

The same for German with phonebook-like sorting order. Simply change the line:

<tsd:language value="en">