[Issue-81] Re: Comment on ITS 2.0 specification WD, i18n-ISSUE-213: its-term in example 44

Hi, all this is to let you know that I have not assigned this a
separate Issue number. This should be discussed together with
i18n-ISSUE-207, under Issue-81.
Thanks for your attention
df

Dr. David Filip
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Leif Halvard Silli
<xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote:
> 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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