[Bug 15126] <cite> tag should include an intra-article link to a full source citation (such as an MLA or APA citation in scholarly research)

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15126

--- Comment #3 from Robert Miesen <robert.miesen@gmail.com> 2012-03-01 06:53:47 UTC ---
The modification of the cite tag as described above would allow for the
combined benefits of allowing browsers and spider programs catalog citations
(and the source for their citation, which in a scholarly article is *not always
a URL*) and allow users to jump to the source being cited.

For an example of what I am talking about, please refer to
http://liturgica.com/html/litJLitHist1.jsp. On this page, we have a number of
citations of non-web based materials, such as books and magazine articles.
Currently, we are using the anchor tag, but when we migrate it to HTML 5, I
believe it makes logical sense for us to be using the cite tag. However, I
believe that it makes little sense to have a cite tag without that cite tag
having a way to reference in some form or another the actual source of the
citation, whether it be a web page or a book or an article.

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Received on Thursday, 1 March 2012 06:53:51 UTC