Re: Suggestions/Questions

At 03:36 PM 6/30/00 -0700, Jonathan Marsh wrote:
>Is there an element similar to HTML's BLOCKQUOTE?  <quote> seems to be a
>phrase-level element.

None yet, but I'll treat this as a request and add something like it for 
the next release.


>Also, one thing that consistently bugs me is the required href attribute on
>loc.  It drives me nuts to keep the following kind of thing in sync:
>
>   <loc href="http://www.w3.org">http://www.w3.org</loc>
>
>I do this all the time in issue and comment resolution markup.  I wish to be
>able to write one of these instead.
>
>   <loc href="http://www.w3.org"/>
>   <loc>http://www.w3.org</loc>

The problem is that sometimes you don't want the content to repeat the URL; 
you want it to say something in English.  Basically, loc is like A.  We 
could make the semantics be CONREF-like; I have no problem with 
that.  (That is, when the content is empty, repeat the href value as the 
content in the output.)  Comments?

         Eve
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