Please consider adding the 'l' element (as found in XHTML 2).
The 'l' element can be used to break up text into separate lines, in a
similar manner to the existing 'br' element. Unlike 'br', it is a
container element; instead of "<p>Line 1<br>Line 2</p>", one would type
"<p><l>Line 1</l><l>Line 2</l></p>". The main advantage of 'l' is
presentational -- it becomes much easier to colour lines differently, to
add automatic line numbers, etc.
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-GB">
<head>
<title><l> Demonstration</title>
<style type="text/css">
label { float: left; width: 8em }
l { display: block }
l :nth-child(odd) { color: #000; background: #EFF }
l :nth-child(even) { color: #000; background: #FEE }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="/profiles">
<p>
<l><label for="forename">Forename:</label>
<input type="text" id="forename" name="forename"
size="50" maxlength="50" /></l>
<l><label for="surname">Surname:</label>
<input type="text" id="surname" name="surname"
size="50" maxlength="50" /></l>
<l><label for="foo">Foo:</label>
<select id="foo" name="foo">
<option value="bar">Bar</option>
<option value="baz">Baz</option>
<option value="qux">Qux</option>
</select></l>
<l><label for="arfle">Arfle:</label>
<select id="arfle" name="arfle">
<option value="barfle">Barfle</option>
<option value="gloop">Gloop</option>
<option value="glorp">Glorp</option>
</select></l>
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
As far as the web developer community is concerned, I don't believe
adapting to use <l> would prove any more challenging than, for example,
adapting to use <section>.
Thank you,
Dave
P.S. One line of JScript is required to coax current versions of
Internet Explorer into parsing the tag:
<!--[if lt IE 8]><script type="text/javascript">
document.createElement('l'); // Register 'l' element within IE
</script><![endif]-->
