On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Paul Wilkins wrote:
HTML 5 says the following http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-cite
HTML 5 isn't necessarily a definitive source on semantics in HTML 4 and XHTML, but in this case, I think it's the reasonable elaboration on what little HTML 4 says, which is "Contains a citation or a reference to other sources."
A source is where something comes from, so we have to have that something in order for the referenced object to be a source. That something isn't necessarily a specific quote, but it has to be at least a vague description. For example, I think "<cite>Tantek</cite> talked about microformats" makes sense because [Tantek] is the source of [talk about microformats]. But "I had lunch with <cite>Tantek</ cite>" doesn't make sense (without additional context) because here the referenced object [Tantek] is not the source of anything.
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