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    <bug>
          <bug_id>23315</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2013-09-21 10:46:05 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Modify blockquote element definition to allow citations</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2013-09-23 15:53:05 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>WHATWG</product>
          <component>HTML</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Windows NT</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>DUPLICATE</resolution>
          <dup_id>23314</dup_id>
          
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>Unsorted</target_milestone>
          <dependson>22996</dependson>
          <blocked>23019</blocked>
    
    <blocked>23021</blocked>
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Sam Ruby">rubys</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>faulkner.steve</cc>
    
    <cc>heydon</cc>
    
    <cc>ian</cc>
    
    <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-admin</cc>
    
    <cc>public-html-wg-issue-tracking</cc>
    
    <cc>xn--mlform-iua</cc>
          
          <qa_contact>contributor</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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    <commentid>93616</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Sam Ruby">rubys</who>
    <bug_when>2013-09-21 10:46:05 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #22996 +++

&quot;The blockquote element represents a section that is quoted from another source.&quot;

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/grouping-content.html#the-blockquote-element

modify blockquote definition to allow citations to be marked up inside the element using &lt;footer&gt;:

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;code&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;pln&quot;&gt;blockquote&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt; element represents a section that is quoted from another source.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;footer&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;cite&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;4.5 Grouping content &amp;mdash; HTML5&quot; href=&quot;http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/grouping-content.html#the-blockquote-element&quot;&gt;W3C HTML5 specification&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/footer&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

refer to:
http://oli.jp/example/blockquote-metadata/
http://oli.jp/2011/blockquote/
http://html5doctor.com/blockquote-q-cite/

Recent discussion: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Aug/thread.html</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>93649</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</who>
    <bug_when>2013-09-23 15:53:05 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23314 ***</thetext>
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