[eml-dev] Cardinality of language

[David Blankman]

ISO allows multiple languages in a data resource. The cardinality of
<language> in resource is 0,1. We have allowed multiple languages in the
metadata. It also seems that we should also allow multiple languages in
<language> This came up because in LTER-Europe's implementation of DEIMS we
allow for multiple languages. We have a few documents with multiple
languages. For example, 7. Dataset language
 Language:
English
Spanish; Castilian

I know that in Israel we have data with both English and Hebrew.

I propose that the cardinality for this element be changed to 0..∞.

Documentation on language:
 language  This element has no default value.Content of this
field:Description of this field:
Type: i18nNonEmptyStringType<http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/eml-2.1.1/eml-resource.html#i18nNonEmptyStringType>

The language in which the resource is written. This can be a well-known
language name, or one of the ISO language codes to be more precise.
Example(s):
English

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