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

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

--- Comment #7 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> ---
(In reply to Josh Tumath from comment #5)

> > Is that correct?

> [ snip ]That's actually incorrect. The example
> is a (fictitious) quotation from the source "John Smith", who cites the work
> "Doctor Who" in his utterance. That's the meaning I intended, but a
> different meaning could be interpreted, like you said.

So, I must then take you to *not* have meant that “John Smith” is (quoting
myself) “yet another work”. Which means that you have used <cite> incorrectly. 

It seems to me that the problem you are raising would be a problem regardless
where the <cite> was used. You are discussing the question about how to discern
between <cite> as reference to a “source” (such as a person of the name ”John
Smith”) versus <cite> as reference to a “work”.

(Citing the spec: “The cite element represents a reference to a creative
work.”)

The answer to *your* problem is: Don’t use <cite> to indicate “source”. Use
<cite> correctly: Use it to indicate a “works”.

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