- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:10:07 GMT
- To: Wesley_Upchurch/Semcoinc%SEMCOINC@semcoinc.com
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
> I think the biggest difference is that <blockquote> is an element meant > to contain quotations that are themselves block level while <q> isn't > meant to contain block level elements. no one would disagree with that. but > I'd believe the following examples are proper use: <p>Martin Luther King's famous speech concluded with the famous lines </p> No that is what you are forced to do in HTML, but you've marked that as the end of the paragraph, but it's not even the end of the sentence. You have omitted any end of sentence punctuation but if worded that way the natural end of sentence is after the quotation. (It's possible to word the sentence such that the sentence does end before the quotation, but we shouldn't let the technology force our choice of words.) A markup that more closely modelled the semantics (and more closely matched the markup of other document formats such as docbook, xmlspec or latex) would be <p>Martin Luther King's famous speech concluded with the famous lines <blockquote><p> Let freedom ring,</p> ... </blockquote> </p> David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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