On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 11:21 +0300, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Toby Inkster wrote:
>
>> <samp>Hello World</samp> => <q role="compsci:outputScreen">Hello
>> World</q>
> 
> Sample output need not appear on screen. Besides, is it really
> _quoted_? 
> From where?

If I use <samp>Hello World</samp>, I am quoting some output from a
computer program. Same as <q>From where?</q> might be used to indicate a
quote from a human. (Jukka in this case.)

Does XHTML need entirely different elements to indicate what type of
entity is being quoted? Should we also have:

	<pet-parrot-quote>Polly wants a cracker</pet-parrot-quote>
	<horse-quote>I'm Mr Ed</horse-quote>

Or perhaps a general <talking-animal-quote> element is specific enough?

<q> and <blockquote> ought to be enough to quote any source -- be it
man, computer or talking beast.

-- 
Toby Inkster <tobyink@goddamn.co.uk>