- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:35:51 +0100
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
Bertilo Wennergren [bertilow@gmx.net] wrote: > thus also in XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1). The use of "cite" to delineate > the speker is however not in accordance with common practice. Normally > "cite" is used _only for the title_ of a source. HTML is a lightweight structural markup language. If you want a more heavyweight one, use something like docbook, don't try to turn HTML into that. I suspect cite hasn't had much attention because it is probably, at least for any of the purposes discussed here, used for less than 1 in a 1000 web pages. However, given that HTML is lightweight, and there is nothing else other than cite to cover the use of italics in conventional typography to indicate a proper name, I would suggest that cite could reasonably be used for any such case of highlighting a proper name which couldn't really be considered stressing it. Given that one has a clean slate in XHTML2, maybe a different element name should be chosen.
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