On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:16:41 +0200, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2.3.1.
Since blockquote is so abused that it is useless for AI, allowing
attribution within the blockquote would be practical.
Attribution isn't part of a quote. How would you distinguish quoting an
attribution from quoting text with an attribution from quoting text that
happens to have its attribution?
Quotation marks:
<BLOCKQUOTE><p>“There’s just no nice way to say this: Anyone
who can’t make a syndication feed that’s well-formed XML
is an incompetent fool.——Maybe this is unkind and elitist
of me, but I think that anyone who either can’t or won’t
implement these measures is, as noted above, a bozo.” –
<A HREF="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/01/11/
PostelPilgrim">Tim
Bray</A>, co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification</p></BLOCKQUOTE>
Or with a <credit> element. Attribution often has a distinct style (e.g.
right aligned and bold). <credit> would also be useful for <figure>.
--
Simon Pieters
Opera Software
