Re: Cite element...

Hi Chaals,

>Tantek suggested on the html-wg IRC channel today that it should be
possible to use a full structured citation as content of a cite element.

my initial changes[1] to cite:

<p>The <code>cite</code> element <span>represents</span> reference
information about a quoted source.

It may be formal reference (i.e. an academic citation), which may
include the author(s) name, the title
 of a work, page number(s) date of publication or other information
typically included, dependent

 on the citation style being used. It may also be an informal
reference such as the author's name.</p>


and example:

<cite>Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations,
+December 1948. Adopted by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III)</cite>.

but modded it after feedback (thread:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Aug/thread.html#msg112)

note that it is not forbidden to markup a reference using a pattern like
tantek's microformat example, but its not explicitly encouraged:

<cite class="h-cite">
    <a class="u-url p-name"
href="http://tantek.com/2013/104/t2/urls-readable-speakable-listenable-retypable">
      URLs should be readable, speakable, listenable, and unambiguously
retypable, e.g. from print: tantek.com/w/ShortURLPrintExample #UX
    </a>
   (<abbr class="p-author h-card" title="Tantek Çelik">Çelik</abbr>
    <time class="dt-published">2013-04-14</time>)
  </cite>

source: http://microformats.org/wiki/h-cite

[1]
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/fdb9ff6bafb3972288081a075790d0dd8ec39faa


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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 11 September 2013 21:05, Charles McCathie Nevile
<chaals@yandex-team.ru>wrote:

> Tantek suggested on the html-wg IRC channel today that it should be
> possible to use a full structured citation as content of a cite element.
>
> I couldn't agree more.
>
> My comment in the bug suggests allowing for a really vague "<cite>that
> weird bloke in that funny book</cite>" type reference, but I think the
> editorial slant should lean strongly towards encouraging structured
> citations, however they happen to be done...
>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
>
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