On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Phillips, Addison <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> One reason to make 'dir' available on higher-level elements is that 'dir', 
> like 'xml:lang', has scope. It is often useful to specify a "base" 
> directionality for an entire document or block of elements rather than having 
> to repeat it over-and-over on each affected element. I can agree that it 
> might not make sense on every element and perhaps we should look at which 
> structural elements in P&C make sense as a place to set a base directionality 
> or directionality override.
>
> I also agree about making <span> available inside <license>. In fact, it is 
> probably the *most* useful inside the license element.

In which elements the use of <span> is expected should now be clear in
the spec [1]:

[[
Context in which this element is used:
  As a child of the name, author, license, and/or description element.
]]

http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#the-span-element-and-its-attributes


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