Orion Adrian wrote:
> I think there is something more important here that may have been missed.
> 
> An structural element should really only have one classification; 
> however, a structure may have multiple semantic classifications.
> 
> Emphasis and Code can both be applied to a single set of code. While 
> there currently aren't many semantic classifications in HTML there are 
> many, many semantic classifications that text can take on and should 
> take on.
> 
> Remove all semantic elements from HTML and replace them with the ability 
> to assign semantic classes (like stylistic classes as they go 
> hand-in-hand) to any structural element.
> 
> Then we end up with
> 
> section, h, l, separator, p, span, div
> 
> as our structure and if you want to specify a set of semantic classes 
> you can, but you do so on each structural element.

+1 I had the same thoughts.
Something like <p class="code quote" cite="...">...</p> or maybe role 
instead of class, or one of the new rdf meta attributes.

Your list of structure elements seems a bit too short though. Lists and 
  tables should be in there too, right?

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Sjoerd Visscher
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