[uf-discuss] locality sans adr;abbr for state/country etc?

[Ryan King]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 2:42 PM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:
> Ryan King wrote:
>> On Jan 16, 2006, at 1:34 PM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:
>>> Ryan King wrote:
>>>
>>> Why not:
>>>
>>> <p>
>>> Unbelievable. Yesterday's high temperature in
>>> <span class="adr locality">Salem</span>
>>> it was 57 degrees out.
>>> </p>
>> Because locality is a subproperty of adr. They can't be on the  
>> same element.
>
> Let me ask this -- would we lose something by allowing this type of  
> compacting? It seems to me there's no information loss.

Among other things, it means that we lose one of the advantages of  
nesting- that the context serves to disambiguate the usage of a term.  
If we allow collapsing, we lose that benefit.

-ryan
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