{"id":154,"date":"2003-01-13T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2003-01-13T19:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/xhtml2_cite_removal.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:22:56","slug":"xhtml2_cite_removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/computers\/xhtml2_cite_removal.html","title":{"rendered":"XHTML 2.0: No cite for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dive Into Mark: <a title=\"Semantic Obsolescence\" href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2003\/01\/13.html#semantic_obsolescence\">Semantic Obsolescence<\/a>. Mark is pissed about the removal of the <code>cite<\/code> tag from XHTML 2.0 and, frankly, so am I. However, bear in mind that XHTML 2.0 is still a working draft, so there&#8217;s still time for <code>cite<\/code> to be added back in. Mark isn&#8217;t the only one who noticed this change, as <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/www-html-editor\/2002OctDec\/0067.html\" title=\"www-html-editor: WD-xhtml2-20021211 comments\">a December 12 posting to www-html-editor<\/a> shows. Sadly, nobody from the W3C has bothered to reply to that post, which might either mean that there isn&#8217;t a reasonable justification for the removal of <code>cite<\/code> or that none of the &#8220;powers that be&#8221; read www-html-editor.<\/p>\n<p>As for the removal of the <code>q<\/code> tag, that appears to be replaced with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2002\/WD-xhtml2-20021211\/mod-text.html#sec_8.12.\" title=\"The quote element\">the <code>quote<\/code> tag<\/a>. Although that change removes backward compatibility for inline quotes, renaming the tag removes ambiguity. The <code>q<\/code> tag probably should have been called <code>quote<\/code> to begin with. Who knows why they decided to change it now.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand Mark&#8217;s disappointment. Like Mark, I&#8217;ve been trying to keep on top of the W3C&#8217;s standards and have been following their semantic markup recommendations to make my pages easier to work with. Hopefully they will be able to redeem themselves before XHTML 2.0 becomes a recommendation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dive Into Mark: <a title=\"Semantic Obsolescence\" href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2003\/01\/13.html#semantic_obsolescence\">Semantic Obsolescence<\/a>. Mark is pissed about the removal of the cite tag from XHTML 2.0 and, frankly, so am I. However, bear in mind that XHTML 2.0 is still a working draft, so there&#8217;s still time for cite to be added back in. Mark isn&#8217;t the only one who&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/computers\/xhtml2_cite_removal.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;XHTML 2.0: No cite for you&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}