- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:28:18 +0100
- To: Mārcis Pinnis <marcis.pinnis@Tilde.lv>
- Cc: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, "public-multilingualweb-lt-comments@w3.org" <public-multilingualweb-lt-comments@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
Mārcis Pinnis, Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:46:46 +0200: > For instance, the following example (from: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLEU) shows where the "dfn" tag may be > applied and where it would (again - in my understanding) be wrong to > apply it (simply because the HTML 5 definition restricts such > application): > > <dfn>BLEU</dfn> (<dfn>Bilingual Evaluation Understudy</dfn>) is an > <span its-term="yes">algorithm</span> for <span > its-term="yes">evaluating</span> the <span its-term="yes">quality of > text</span> which has been <span > its-term="yes">machine-translated</span> from one <span > its-term="yes">natural language</span> to another. > > Feel free to correct me if I got the meaning of the <dfn> tag wrong > from the HTML 5 reference. The <dfn> element seems to be correctly used in the above code example. But if you mean to say that one cannot, in the above example, replace <span its-term="yes">algorithm</span> with <dfn its-term="yes">algorithm</dfn>, then I agree - you are correct. -- leif halvard silli
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