New section element

Issue: Justification for adding the "section" element.

Details: section represents a generic document or application section. It can be used together with h1-h6 to indicate the document structure.

Rationale: Why this Element Should be Added

1. Improves structure.
2. Section, header and the outline algorithm features provide a standard way to generate an outline for an HTML document. The outline can be used for jumping directly to an interesting part of a long document.
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• Re: the market hasn't spoken - it hasn't bothered to listened (was Re: fear of "invisible metadata") - Henri Sivonen (27 Jun 2007)