Identical sematics, new names in XHTML 2?

From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:56:23 -0400 To: <www-html@w3.org> Message-ID: <005001c264ef$28012440$6601a8c0@blackie> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 6 April 2009 12:59:17 GMT

This has been touched on before here, but as part of a larger list of
items: what is the purpose of renaming <q> to <quote>?  If an element
has identical semantics in previous versions of [x]HTML (in this case,
inline quotes), should it not keep the same name?  Much less confusion,
I would think.  <q> seems to be the only element to which this has
happened -- there was no renaming of <tr> to <row> or <table-row>, for
example (at least in the current draft).

/Jelks