> Perhaps what is needed is some kind of "in-reply-to" attribute: > > <article id="beer">I like beer</article> > <article id="firstreply" in-reply-to="beer">Me too!</article> > > or even: > > <article id="beer">I like beer > <article id="firstreply" in-reply-to="beer">Me too!</article> > </article>
There's the idea to borrow the in-reply-to rel value from Atom: http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values#non_HTML_rel_values <article id="beer">I like beer <article>Me too! <a rel="in-reply-to" href="#beer">⏎</a></article> </article>