[ac] (0) More conformance requirements for <blockquote> since people …

…keep asking. Affected topics: HTML git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@6988 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
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@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@
 
   <header class=head id=head><p><a class=logo href=http://www.whatwg.org/><img alt=WHATWG height=101 src=/images/logo width=101></a></p>
    <hgroup><h1 class=allcaps>HTML</h1>
-    <h2 class="no-num no-toc">Living Standard &mdash; Last Updated 10 February 2012</h2>
+    <h2 class="no-num no-toc">Living Standard &mdash; Last Updated 11 February 2012</h2>
    </hgroup><dl><dt><strong>Web developer edition:</strong></dt>
     <dd><strong><a href=http://developers.whatwg.org/>http://developers.whatwg.org/</a></strong></dd>
     <dt>Multiple-page version:</dt>
@@ -19522,6 +19522,45 @@ <h4 id=the-blockquote-element><span class=secno>4.5.4 </span>The <dfn><code>bloc
   citation link, the value of the attribute must be <a href=#resolve-a-url title="resolve a url">resolved</a> relative to the element. User
   agents should allow users to follow such citation links.</span></p>
 
+  <p>The content of a <code><a href=#the-blockquote-element>blockquote</a></code> may be abbreviated or
+  may have context added in the conventional manner for the text's
+  language.</p>
+
+  <div class=example>
+
+   <p>For example, in English this is traditionally done using square
+   brackets. Consider a page with the sentence "Fred ate the cracker.
+   He then said he liked apples and fish."; it could be quoted as
+   follows:</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;blockquote&gt;
+ &lt;p&gt;[Fred] then said he liked [...] fish.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;</pre>
+
+  </div>
+
+  <p>Attribution for the quotation, if any, must be placed outside the
+  <code><a href=#the-blockquote-element>blockquote</a></code> element.</p> <!-- Eventually someone is
+  going to ask about quotes that are self-attributing, e.g. someone
+  quoting an e-mail with full headers... -->
+
+  <div class=example>
+
+   <p>For example, here the attribution is given in a paragraph after
+   the quote:</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;blockquote&gt;
+ &lt;p&gt;I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer
+ god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other
+ possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&mdash; Stephen Roberts&lt;/p&gt;</pre>
+
+   <p>The other examples below show other ways of showing
+   attribution.</p>
+
+  </div>
+
   <div class=impl>
 
   <p>The <dfn id=dom-quote-cite title=dom-quote-cite><code>cite</code></dfn> IDL

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@
 
   <header class=head id=head><p><a class=logo href=http://www.whatwg.org/><img alt=WHATWG height=101 src=/images/logo width=101></a></p>
    <hgroup><h1 class=allcaps>HTML</h1>
-    <h2 class="no-num no-toc">Living Standard &mdash; Last Updated 10 February 2012</h2>
+    <h2 class="no-num no-toc">Living Standard &mdash; Last Updated 11 February 2012</h2>
    </hgroup><dl><dt><strong>Web developer edition:</strong></dt>
     <dd><strong><a href=http://developers.whatwg.org/>http://developers.whatwg.org/</a></strong></dd>
     <dt>Multiple-page version:</dt>
@@ -19522,6 +19522,45 @@ a friend lost to the
   citation link, the value of the attribute must be <a href=#resolve-a-url title="resolve a url">resolved</a> relative to the element. User
   agents should allow users to follow such citation links.</span></p>
 
+  <p>The content of a <code><a href=#the-blockquote-element>blockquote</a></code> may be abbreviated or
+  may have context added in the conventional manner for the text's
+  language.</p>
+
+  <div class=example>
+
+   <p>For example, in English this is traditionally done using square
+   brackets. Consider a page with the sentence "Fred ate the cracker.
+   He then said he liked apples and fish."; it could be quoted as
+   follows:</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;blockquote&gt;
+ &lt;p&gt;[Fred] then said he liked [...] fish.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;</pre>
+
+  </div>
+
+  <p>Attribution for the quotation, if any, must be placed outside the
+  <code><a href=#the-blockquote-element>blockquote</a></code> element.</p> <!-- Eventually someone is
+  going to ask about quotes that are self-attributing, e.g. someone
+  quoting an e-mail with full headers... -->
+
+  <div class=example>
+
+   <p>For example, here the attribution is given in a paragraph after
+   the quote:</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;blockquote&gt;
+ &lt;p&gt;I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer
+ god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other
+ possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&mdash; Stephen Roberts&lt;/p&gt;</pre>
+
+   <p>The other examples below show other ways of showing
+   attribution.</p>
+
+  </div>
+
   <div class=impl>
 
   <p>The <dfn id=dom-quote-cite title=dom-quote-cite><code>cite</code></dfn> IDL

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -20930,6 +20930,45 @@ a friend lost to the
   title="resolve a url">resolved</span> relative to the element. User
   agents should allow users to follow such citation links.</span></p>
 
+  <p>The content of a <code>blockquote</code> may be abbreviated or
+  may have context added in the conventional manner for the text's
+  language.</p>
+
+  <div class="example">
+
+   <p>For example, in English this is traditionally done using square
+   brackets. Consider a page with the sentence "Fred ate the cracker.
+   He then said he liked apples and fish."; it could be quoted as
+   follows:</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;blockquote>
+ &lt;p>[Fred] then said he liked [...] fish.&lt;/p>
+&lt;/blockquote></pre>
+
+  </div>
+
+  <p>Attribution for the quotation, if any, must be placed outside the
+  <code>blockquote</code> element.</p> <!-- Eventually someone is
+  going to ask about quotes that are self-attributing, e.g. someone
+  quoting an e-mail with full headers... -->
+
+  <div class="example">
+
+   <p>For example, here the attribution is given in a paragraph after
+   the quote:</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;blockquote>
+ &lt;p>I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer
+ god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other
+ possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.&lt;/p>
+&lt;/blockquote>
+&lt;p>&mdash; Stephen Roberts&lt;/p></pre>
+
+   <p>The other examples below show other ways of showing
+   attribution.</p>
+
+  </div>
+
   <div class="impl">
 
   <p>The <dfn title="dom-quote-cite"><code>cite</code></dfn> IDL