Re: The cite and pubdate attributes

Le 10 août 2009 à 07:48, Lachlan Hunt a écrit :
> Similarly, the cite attribute duplicates functionality of the <cite>  
> elmement combined with <a href>.

cite attribute on blockquote covers different cases and makes a direct  
association between the quoted text and the reference.

# Example 1

In this example, the author and even the titles can have different  
URIs (a href) inside cite *element* for expressing more information.  
The quoted text makes a reference to a precise book from which it has  
been extracted.
The main issue for me is that I can't associate the author and the  
title with the right quote, specifically when there is more than one  
in the page.

<p class="source">In the book, <cite class="title">The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn</cite>,  written in 1884 by <cite class="author">
<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain">Mark Twain</a></cite>
is referring to a previous novel:</p>

<blockquote cite="urn:isbn:978-0-14-243717-9" xml:lang="en">
	<p>You don't know me about me, without you have read
	a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
	" but that ain't no matter.</p>
</blockquote>



# Example 2

In this example we can have also different uris inside cite element  
and I can associate the source with the blockquote. But it doesn't  
solve my issue when I have a text flow which is more fluid with a  
narrative. I might still want to associate the author and the quotes.

<blockquote cite="urn:isbn:978-0-14-243717-9" xml:lang="en">

	<p>You don't know me about me, without you have read
	a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,"
	but that ain't no matter.</p>

	<p class="source">
	 <cite class="auteur">Twain, Mark</cite>, p. 9.
	 <cite class="titre">The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</cite>.
	Penguin Classics. 2003
	</p>

</blockquote>


IMHO, removing the cite attribute on quote is not a very good idea and  
doesn't create any benefits.
Making it possible for browser to activate the URI contained in cite  
attribute be a lot better (javascript and css can be used already see  
below).

My constraints are often:

1. associating authors, titles and quotes which can be distributed in  
a text.
2. still being able to associate them when multiple quotes and authors.
3. Being able to use different uris for
	"cite element with a href"
     and "cite attribute in blockquote and q elements".


blockquote[cite]:after {
   content: "Quote from: " attr(cite);
   display: block;
}


Opera had (has?) also proprietary extension to CSS

q[cite], blockquote[cite] {
	-o-link: attr(cite);
	-o-link-source: current;
	cursor: pointer }


See references

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/176/
http://simonwillison.net/2002/Dec/20/blockquoteCitations/
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200411/quotations_and_citations_quoting_text/
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/structural-markup-javascript/
http://www.blog-and-blues.org/weblog/2004/08/24/284-attribut-cite-pseudo-lien



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