[whatwg] The blockquote element spec vs common quoting practices

[Bjartur Thorlacius]

Þann fim 14.júl 2011 11:09, skrifaði Jukka K. Korpela:
> 14.07.2011 13:49, Karl Dubost wrote:
>> <blockquote cite="urn:isbn:978-2-07-07533-7">
>> <p>Sur un pétale de lotus, j'écrivis ces quelques vers :</p>
>> <p>«<q>Même si l'on vient me chercher<br/>
>> Comment, abandonnant la rosée<br/>
>> De pareil lotus,<br/>
>> Retournerai-je<br/>
>> Dans le monde changeant et frivole ?</q> »</p>
>> <p>et j'envoyais ce pétale.</p>
>> <p class="source">
>> <cite class="auteur">Shonagon, Sei</cite>,
>> <cite class="titre">Notes de chevet</cite>, p.64, Unesco, NRF, 1966.</p>
>> </blockquote>
Yes, but for usability reasons the cite[@class=titre] should represent a 
hyperlink to the cited book. Is an user agent to find a cite descendant 
of <blockquote> and make it represent a hyperlink to the cited resource 
(identified by the URI in the cite attribute of blockquote)?

> (I don't like to nitpick on the author identification, but wouldn’t
> <cite class="auteur" lang="jp-Latn">Shōnagon, Sei</cite> be better?)
I don't think author names are allowed in <cite> in HTML 5.