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 -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
