If you go back to the golden age of Usenet FAQs,
you can find some very common styles. One
concrete example is this 1993 one from
comp.mail.mime:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.mime/browse_thread/thread/
74b72277e4da2f9a
Note a few things -
- the index at the front to the sections of the document
- a diff marker in the index to note sections which have changed
- the use of punctuation to indicate which parts of the document are
incomplete
- the extensive credits given to contributors (45 listed)
- the specific credits for individual portions of the work, inline
- the use of timestamps to mark the freshness of ever-changing FAQ
answers
This style of FAQ-writing has largely been abandoned by
the Death of Usenet (film at 11), but in its day it was
incredibly useful.
Ed
On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:40 PM, fantasai wrote:
Paul Kinlan wrote:
Hi,
<span class=qa><span class=question>Where does paul kinlan live?</
span><span class=answer>liverpool</span></span>
I think <dl><dt><dd> are more appropriate elements for this task.
A microformat should be designed so that even if you remove all
the class names, it still makes sense as semantic HTML.
Is this a good idea? Is it worth progressing? Has it already
been discussed?
I think so.
FYI, DocBook has a set of elements devoted to marking up Q&A:
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/qandaset.html
~fantasai
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