> I guess that I stumbled upon the structural overlap between <BLOCKQUOTE> and
> <Q> and the focus on presentation and the "...'..'..." case. If we want to
> represent text that originates elsewhere, why not deprecate <BLOCKQUOTE> and
> enrich <Q> with attributes that would fold in the functionality of <BLOCKQUOTE>
> and describe more fully interesting things about quotes?
Q and BLOCKQUOTE serve two different roles. <Q>..</Q> is intended for
a few quoted words to be inserted into a passage as part of the paragraph's
text while BLOCKQUOTE is intended for lengthier quotations which need to
appear as separate paragraphs.
-- Best wishes,Dave Raggett ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett Packard Laboratories email: dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com Filton Road, Stoke Gifford tel: +44 272 228046 Bristol BS12 6QZ fax: +44 272 228003 United Kingdom