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Re: Use of <cite> Quotations with citation

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From: Jens O. Meiert
Date: Sep 19, 2013 7:56PM

> 2) Why Hillary is not coded using <cite> in the last example on
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/text-level-semantics.html#the-cite-element ?
> <p><q>This is correct</q>, said Hillary.</p>

The W3C draft is unusably slow to me, but according to the WHATWG
version [1], "A person's name is not the title of a work."

This would have been a good question for either working group
actually, but I hope this helps.


[1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-cite-element

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