- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:31:08 +0100
- To: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
NOTE: I'm not argumenting, just sharing information (not an opinion). On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Jim Jewett wrote: > > Justin James and Robert Burns wrote: > >> > Again, if <q> adds punctuation, so should <p> and any other element >> > which represents grammar. > > Which other elements would those be? I think it would be stretching things > to say that <section> affects grammar. Are <p> and <q> the only ones? > Or are you counting <li> typically adding a marker/bullet? In French, when the list is not made of sentences, when it is an enumeration, a list item should end with a semi-colon, except for the last one which ends with a full stop. In a nested list, items end with a comma except for the last one which ends with a semi-colon ; the item containing the nested list introduces it with a colon (i.e. it doesn't end with a semi-colon or full stop as I said above, as those characters are moved to the last item of the nested list). Example: http://www.guide-typographie.com/ponctuation_Enumeration.htm HTML doesn't mark up "language", it marks up semantics: a <q> denotes a quote, so that they can be easily extracted: http://labs.google.com/inquotes/ (In Quotes uses language analysis, but if everyone were using <q> and <cite> the job would much easier); and can link to the source of the quote (for UAs to provide a meant o follow the link, and for robots to unambiguously associate the quote and the quoted material –which is not possible with a bare <a>–). -- Thomas Broyer
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