Re: My comments on the XHTML 2 draft.

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 03:38:41 +0200
Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:

| If you use <section> a 'level' attribute on <h> is redundant, the level
| is determined from context. I don't see why this attribute renders h1-h6
| superfluous?

Switching to using <section> and <h> requires a different way of thinking from using the <hX> elements.  Thus, it would be sensible to provide a level attribute for the transition. It would also make converting from <hX> to <h> considerably easier for automated agents.
 
| >Another idea for an element I shall call <Title> (note: upper case T,
| >because obviously there is already a <title> element) Anyway, it could
| >be used to mark up the titles of books, software packages, films and
| >songs. Right now, <span> classes have to be used instead.
| 
| Why do you consider this element to be necessary?

I don't. *None* of the text elements are *necessary* -- we could make do with just <span>:

<span class="abbr">...</span>
<span class="quote">...</span>
<span class="pre">...</span>
<span class="p">...</span>

A <Title> element would just be *useful* -- useful in the same way as <code>, <quote> and <abbr> are.

Jonas Jo/rgensen wrote:
| This one I strongly support (though maybe Title isn't the greatest name
| for it).

I agree -- <Title> is a bad name, it's just the best name of which I could think. Maybe <pub> (for publication), although that's not really appropriate for referring to films and television shows and only really semi-appropriate for music. Maybe just <t>. For the purposes of discussion, I shall continue to refer to is as <Title> though.

Mark Gallagher wrote:
| <cite> seems fairly appropriate to me for this.

Not really. <cite> is for specifying the source of a piece of information. There are occasions when <cite> is inappropriate. For example, an online book shop listing the titles for sale, or:

    <p>
      Yesterday, I bought a copy of The Beatles' <cite>Sgt Pepper's
      Lonely Hearts Club Band</cite>.
    </p>

It's not really appropriate in that setting. Consider here the use of <cite> and <Title> together:

    <p>
      According to <cite>Bill Bryson's book <Title>A Walk in the
      Woods</Title></cite> there has been a huge fire burning in
      Centralia, Pennsylvania since 1962.  No-one has put it out
      because <quote>'no-one was empowered to spend that kind of
      money.'</quote>
    </p>

See? <Title> would be really nice. :-)

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