- From: Orion Adrian <oadrian@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:35:11 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
>Orion Adrian wrote: >>I think there is something more important here that may have been missed. >> >>An structural element should really only have one classification; however, >>a structure may have multiple semantic classifications. >> >>Emphasis and Code can both be applied to a single set of code. While there >>currently aren't many semantic classifications in HTML there are many, >>many semantic classifications that text can take on and should take on. >> >>Remove all semantic elements from HTML and replace them with the ability >>to assign semantic classes (like stylistic classes as they go >>hand-in-hand) to any structural element. >> >>Then we end up with >> >>section, h, l, separator, p, span, div >> >>as our structure and if you want to specify a set of semantic classes you >>can, but you do so on each structural element. > >+1 I had the same thoughts. >Something like <p class="code quote" cite="...">...</p> or maybe role >instead of class, or one of the new rdf meta attributes. > >Your list of structure elements seems a bit too short though. Lists and >tables should be in there too, right? Yeah Orion Adrian
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