[whatwg] <dfn> uniqueness

Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com
Tue Nov 28 07:47:37 PST 2006


The spec says:

> There must only be one <dfn> element per document for each term  
> defined (i.e. there must not be any duplicate terms).

So, according to the spec, using <dfn> to identify multiple  
definitions of the same term is wrong. But what if there is actually  
two definitions for the same term in the text? And what if it's two  
identical words in two different languages?

For instance, is using <dfn> here really wrong? I'm puzzled.

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Michel Fortin
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