- From: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:33:44 +1000 (EST)
- To: "Philip TAYLOR [PC335/O-XP]" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: samuli@samulilintula.net, <www-html@w3.org>
> What I would /like/ to be able to do, as you may infer from my
> immediately preceding posting, is tag it as
>
> <Linnaean-binomial>S. cerevisiae</>
>
> where <Linnaean-binomial> will (be defined to) expand to
> <em class="Linnaean-binomial"> in the browser, but it would seem
> that that is not possible, as far as I can tell.
Why not use that element (appropriately namespace qualified?) and add a
stylesheet rule:
Linnaean-binomial { font-style: italic }
Then you could define a new profile for
XHTML+XForms+SVG+MathML+Biology+...
Michael
Received on Monday, 12 August 2002 21:32:29 UTC