Clayton Lengel-Zigich wrote:
There is this format for presenting quotes

As <CITE>Harry S. Truman</CITE> said,
<Q lang="en-us">The buck stops here.</Q>
The problem with that (and yes, I know it's an official W3C example) is that it does not unequivocally link the CITE with the Q (not in the same way that, for instance, LABEL is linked to an INPUT or other form control via the FOR attribute). So the relationship between those two elements is really implicit, and mostly down to proximity within the page and the general context...

But again, one of those examples of how ambiguous and utterly flawed many aspects of the "semantic" structures in (x)html are...

Patrick H. Lauke
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