<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I was unaware of the Microdata spec. Now that I have seen it, I think it offers a lot of power and flexibility. I think it should adequately cover the use case I was thinking of.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm in favor of adding a non-normative note to the section of the HTML5 spec that discusses <cite> that demonstrates how Microdata or RDFa could be used for this purpose. There will likely be other people like me who read the <cite> section of the spec and think "What? I can't actually make the citation point to something?" </div><br><div><div>On May 8, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">I'm not opposed to adding @cite to <cite> but note that when you are<br>identifying a resource rather than linking to a resource, you could use<br>microdata or RDFa.<br><br>For example:<br><br> <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#global-identifiers-for-items">http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#global-identifiers-for-items</a><br><br> <a href="http://rdfa.info/wiki/Rdfa-microdata-markup-comparison#Book_markup_with_ISBN_and_description">http://rdfa.info/wiki/Rdfa-microdata-markup-comparison#Book_markup_with_ISBN_and_description</a></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>