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.
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?" On May 8, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: I'm not opposed to adding @cite to <cite> but note that when you are identifying a resource rather than linking to a resource, you could use microdata or RDFa. For example: http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#global-identifiers-for-items http://rdfa.info/wiki/Rdfa-microdata-markup-comparison#Book_markup_with_ISBN_and_description
