- From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:16:14 +0000
- To: Junk Account <avoid.spam.account@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 08:10 +0000, Junk Account wrote:
> But we still mix structure with semantic meaning.
This was discussed on this list about a year or so ago, and I am in
agreement with you.
Elements like <section>, <h>, <ul>, <li>, <p> and so forth are clearly
"structure" elements.
OTOH, there are some that are clearly a handful of "semantics" elements,
like <code>, <cite> and <nl>.
The semantic elements should be ditched in favour of an entirely
structural XHTML. A "semantics" attribute could be introduced though.
e.g.:
<pre semantics="code" class="perl">
while(1)
{
print "Hello world!\n";
}
</pre>
<div semantics="address">
<l>123 Quux Street</l>
<l>Foobar</l>
<l>Anytown</l>
</div>
<ul>
<li semantics="cite">The Vicar of Nibbleswick</li>
<li src="witches_cover.jpeg"
semantics="cite">The Witches</li>
<li href="http://amazon.com/foo/bar/00002134/view"
semantics="cite">Esiotrot</li>
</ul>
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