Re: The Semantic Debate

John Foliot wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> I would not be opposed to adding a 'role' attribute, as long as we
>> also support adding semantics the way it's done before. 
> 
> And how is that Jonas?  Outside of the "copyright" example, can you point to
> another instance of how semantic meaning has been ascribed to a word or
> string (sentence)?  Can you show me an example of emotion or semantic nuance
> "in the wild?"  In email exchanges, we occasionally see things like:
> 
>    <sarcasm></sarcasm>
>    <joke></joke>
>    <critical></critical>
> ...and so forth, however, I've never seen: <span class="sarcasm"></span> or
> <p class="joke"></p>.  If it (or something similar) exists, please do point
> it out.

I wonder if it would help if W3C constructed a representative sample of 
the web which we could grep for markup like this.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis