- From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:19:21 -0400
Le 2007-04-04 ? 8:54, David Walbert a ?crit : > If the time doesn't have to be a separate block-level element, it > could be marked up simply as > > <dialog> > <dt>caker (<time>21:57</time>)</dt> > <dd>sweet</dd> Indeed it could... in this case. Sometime however the time is indicated every 5, or 10 minutes to not overload the dialogue with time references, in which case associating the time reference with the speaker may not be the best thing to do. For instance, take the much more complicated case of the hansard of debates in the Canadian Parliament: here is a link to the oral questions of the latest session: <http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx? Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=1&DocId=2823652&Language=E#OOB-1998516> Of semantic importance here, you'll find time markers every 5 minutes -- (1115) for 11:15 -- and also language change markers -- [Translation] or [English] -- indicating if the text following it has been translated or not. Note that both of these markers can actually appear between two paragraphs with no change of interlocutor, or they can appear just above the name of a new interlocutor. I'm not quite sure how the markup should accomodate this, but I think the rules ought to be flexible enough. Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com http://www.michelf.com/
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