[Bug 23175] Use of <cite> in <blockquote> has conflicting semantics

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23175

Nicholas Stimpson <nicholas.stimpson@ntlworld.com> changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Nicholas Stimpson <nicholas.stimpson@ntlworld.com> ---
(In reply to steve faulkner from comment #15)
> comment from bertilo Wennergren -
> http://html5doctor.com/cite-and-blockquote-reloaded/#comment-38774
> 
> "It seems to me that the wording in the spec should be:
> 
> “It is suggested that if the ‘footer’ or ‘cite’ elements are included and
> these elements are also being used within a ‘blockquote’ to identify
> citations, ‘i’ elements should be substitued for the ‘cite’ elements from
> the quoted source, and ‘div’ elements substituted for the ‘footer’ elements
> from the quoted source. The original mark-up (using ‘cite’ and/or ‘footer’)
> can be retained in comments.”
> 
> The part about “div” for “footer” is my own conjecture."

The problem I have with this, is that I don't understand why a piece of content
that would, in any other context be marked up with 'cite', not be marked up
with 'cite' when it is in quoted text. Isn't a 'cite' just as useful there as
anywhere else? 

Note that this is irrespective of whether 'cite' markup was used in the source
from which the text is being quoted.

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