- From: John Whelan <whelan@itp.unibe.ch>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 08:41:50 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@operasoftware.com> wrote: > Also sprach JOrendorff@ixl.com: > > For example, (and I don't claim to be an authority on this > > at all) I'd like to see markup for names: > > > > <name of="book">The Elements of Style</name> > > <name of="song">Penny Lane</name> > > <name of="periodical">The Alarmist</name> > How about: > > <span class="book">The Elements of Style</span> > <span class="song">Penny Lane</span> > <span class="periodical">The Alarmist</span> Unless I'm mistaken, this is within the realm of the <cite> element, so <cite class="book">The Elements of Style</cite> <cite class="song">Penny Lane</cite> <cite class="periodical">The Alarmist</cite> already fits the bill and typically displays in italics by default. Speaking of <cite>: > > Also, I'm curious about <cite>; it seems it should have an > > attribute <cite for="idref"> that allows the author to specify > > what the cited authority is being cited for. Or, conversely, the id on the cite could be used to reference the corresponding <q> or <blockquote>. The point here being that the cite *attribute* on <q> and <blockquote> can be used to attribute the quote to a reference by URL, but there is not a standard mechanism to attribute quotes to offline sources. I suppose that could be kludged with the current standard in the following way (using an example from <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#h-9.2.1>): As <CITE id="hst">Harry S. Truman</CITE> said, <Q lang="en-us" cite="#hst">The buck stops here.</Q> John T. Whelan whelan@iname.com http://www.slack.net/~whelan/
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