Comments on: Where Does the XML Go? http://stuartsierra.com/2007/06/07/where-does-the-xml-go From programming to everything else Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:55:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra » Blog Archive » HTML Footnotes http://stuartsierra.com/2007/06/07/where-does-the-xml-go#comment-12651 Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra » Blog Archive » HTML Footnotes Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:40:07 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/2007/06/07/where-does-the-xml-go#comment-12651 [...] comment on my post about XML and footnotes got me thinking about representing footnotes in HTML. Not the visual presentation — there are [...] [...] comment on my post about XML and footnotes got me thinking about representing footnotes in HTML. Not the visual presentation — there are [...]

]]> By: Stuart http://stuartsierra.com/2007/06/07/where-does-the-xml-go#comment-12593 Stuart Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:26:07 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/2007/06/07/where-does-the-xml-go#comment-12593 Leonard Richardson Says: <em>"It sounds like defining a 'footnote' class for DIV should solve your problem."</em> I'd like to do that, but I couldn't come up with a general-purpose representation for footnotes in HTML. What's the best way to do it, anyway? Put them at the bottom of a section with internal links (what I do now)? JavaScript popups? Margin notes? Any one of these is more than I can accomplish with a simple DIV and CSS. Maybe some JavaScript rewriting could do it, but I'm not much of a JS hacker. So I took the complicated route and made my own FOOTNOTE tag that gets used twice—once for the linked reference, once for the footnote itself—when the page is displayed. Leonard Richardson Says: “It sounds like defining a ‘footnote’ class for DIV should solve your problem.”

I’d like to do that, but I couldn’t come up with a general-purpose representation for footnotes in HTML. What’s the best way to do it, anyway? Put them at the bottom of a section with internal links (what I do now)? JavaScript popups? Margin notes? Any one of these is more than I can accomplish with a simple DIV and CSS. Maybe some JavaScript rewriting could do it, but I’m not much of a JS hacker. So I took the complicated route and made my own FOOTNOTE tag that gets used twice—once for the linked reference, once for the footnote itself—when the page is displayed.

]]> By: Leonard Richardson http://stuartsierra.com/2007/06/07/where-does-the-xml-go#comment-12243 Leonard Richardson Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:55:13 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/2007/06/07/where-does-the-xml-go#comment-12243 If the only thing keeping you from using HTML is the lack of a footnote tag, you might create a microformat for HTML footnotes. It sounds like defining a "footnote" class for DIV should solve your problem. If the only thing keeping you from using HTML is the lack of a footnote tag, you might create a microformat for HTML footnotes. It sounds like defining a “footnote” class for DIV should solve your problem.

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