Lea - I think the problematic part of the <address /> element as
described in Geoff's link is the part reading "authorship for the
current document". Yes, wrapping a street address is correct. However,
it specifies that the address must be related directly to the document
(e.g. the author's or owner organisations address). You can't,
apparently, use it to mark up arbitrary addresses in a page.

My interpretation from that link (contrary from what I previously
believed) you couldn't markup the address of your companies resellers
(for instance, you have a list of them on a single page) with the
<address> element as their address isn't related to the authorship of
the document.

I do agree with Geoff that this is something of a waste of an element.

Ben

On 5/22/05, Lea de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2005 06:48:55 +1000, Geoff Deering wrote:
> > The first is correct, but <address> should only be used when
> > referencing the author of a document.
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/address.html
> > http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.5.3
> >
> > It's not used for general contact information, which is kind of waste
> > of a good element.
> 
> Happily, both of the examples you cited contradict you.
> Do put street address in ADDRESS tags :)
> 
> warmly,
> Lea
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