- From: Osmo Saarikumpu <osmo@kotikone.fi>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:27:20 +0300
- To: www-html@w3.org
Christophe Strobbe wrote: > On rereading that section: "Such an attribute [=title or full] should be > repeated each time the abbreviation is *defined* in the document" > [emphasis added]. 'Defined' is not the same as 'used'. Yes, I misread it. I guess that I'm missing something, as what it really says seems redundant nonsense to me. Consider the given example: The <span id="w3c">World Wide Web Consortium</span> (<abbr full="#w3c">W3C</abbr>) develops interoperable... Where the attribute refers to the immediate context. This is what should be marked, but not when the abbreviation appears say five paragraphs later? Now I'm really confused :) > I agree that it helps but I don't agree that it should be required for > every instance. I actually see no requirement to provide the expansion > for every instance: once is enough to meet the letter of this checkpoint. Perhaps we misunderstand each other here. I'm not advocating for a *must*, but for a *should*, as in RFC 2119. Regards, Osmo
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