Re: XHTML2: Elements to include and not to include (i and b)

Samuli Lintula wrote:

> One could invent new tags for XHTML2, but then one should also
> replace <sup> with
> <number-of-atoms>, <index>, <atomic-number>,
> <proportion-of-a-DNA-or-RNA-base-in-a-consensus-sequence> etc.

Those element types are just the sort of thing that is desirable,
although not necessarily desirable as a direct addition to HTML
specifications.  Let specialist groups define specialist markup and
define the combination of specialist and generalist (XHTML) markup.

The 'sup' element type is presentational, full stop.

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