[uf-discuss] Appeal for Issues: Empty spans in value-excerption-pattern

[André Luís]

Rob,

>From the top of my head:

<p>Barack Obama was elected the first African American president of the
United States of American, and he was really pleased about it, on
<span class="dtstart"><span class="value"
title="2008-11-04"></span>4th
November 2008</span></p>

(sorry, I'm in a rush. ;))
--
André Luís

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Rob Crowther <robertc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/11/7 Scott Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com>:
>> Not as a valid dtstart value, no.  The title attribute is only parsed when
>> the value element is empty, so that would parse with an invalid dtstart
>> value containing the entire sentence.  See:
>>
> Sorry, I mucked up my copy and pasting, this is what I meant:
>
> <span class="dtstart"><span class="value" title="2008-11-04"></span>
> Barack Obama was elected the first African American president of the
> United States of American, and he was really pleased about it, on 4th
> November 2008</span>
>
> Basically I'm not clear how forcing the empty element to be the first
> thing guarantees that it will then be close to the plain text date.
> Forcing it to be anywhere would seem to guarantee there are situations
> where it can't be close to where the plain text date is if the
> original example is valid, because it's easy enough to have that
> sentence the other way around.
>
> Rob
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