- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 13:41:13 +0100
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Simpson, Grant Leyton <glsimpso at indiana.edu> wrote: > 1. Referencing something in the href attributed of an <a> tag implies that > the URI will resolve to a URL, that is, that it will be accessible on the web > at that address. Not every URI is a URL, though. That's what I was trying to > do with a "uri" attribute for the <cite> tag is to identify the resource, not > necessarily link to it. I'm not opposed to adding @cite to <cite> but note that when you are identifying a resource rather than linking to a resource, you could use microdata or RDFa. For example: http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#global-identifiers-for-items http://rdfa.info/wiki/Rdfa-microdata-markup-comparison#Book_markup_with_ISBN_and_description > 2. We would have to formally define what <a> within <cite> means, otherwise > we would leave the pairing up for interpretation. You stated that you want to "indicate a location for a work (or information about the work)". A hyperlink indicates the location of an item or information about an item, and "a href" creates a hyperlink. What could be the other interpretations of <cite><a href="...">Work title</a></cite> or <a href="..."><cite>Work title</cite></a> other than that the hyperlink locates the work or information about the work? > 3. Are there instances where tags that can be used separately take on a > different meaning in relation to one another? I know what <li> means in > relation to <ol> and <ul>, but then again, I can't really use <li> outside of > either of those two. I think the combination of "cite" and "a" to indicate a work title and the location of the work or information about the work does not involve changing the meaning of either "cite" or "a". This is the markup equivalent of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_composition -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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