Text string with the language of the string identified as recommended in the XML 1.0 W3C Recommendation, section 2.12.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Identifies an ISO language and optional country code.  The language is identified by either a 2-letter ISO 639-1 or 3-letter ISO 639-2T. The country portion is optional and identified by ISO 3166.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This class is modeled after the xml:lang attribute but is intended to be mapped into existing, appropriate representations in each format (XML, JSON, etc.).<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Combined language and country code examples: "en-us", "en-pg", "en", "fr", "deu-at"<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This type is developed as an alternative to importing ISO 19115/19139, which are packages of significant size.  <br /></p>