2009/1/8 James Jeffery <jamesjeffery....@googlemail.com> > I'm developing a site. A quote site infact. For the quotes I think it's > wise to use <blockquote> ... but, the quotes are being scraped from other > sites so how would I cite them? Could I use a wiki url for the author? And > what if the author is unknown or has no wiki page. > Do I *need* to include the cite attribute? > While the cite attribute isn't mandatory, your scenario actually solves its own problem. You can put in the URL you got the quote from. The cite attribute is set up for that sort of usage:
"cite = uri [CT] The value of this attribute is a URI that designates a source document or message. This attribute is intended to give information about the source from which the quotation was borrowed." http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.2.2 If you wanted to visibly show the actual author/quote source (ie. who said it, not where you got it) then you could include the name in a <cite>. eg. <blockquote cite=" http://www.rtnda.org/pages/media_items/edward-r.-murrow-speech998.php";> <p>This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful.</p> <p><cite>Edward R. Murrow</cite>, RTNDA Convention Speech, October 15 1958</p> </blockquote> cheers, Ben -- --- <http://weblog.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
