HTML5: <cite> must not be used to mark up people’s names

[bentley]

This one’s a doozy. According to the current HTML5 spec, cite must not be used for people’s names. In fact, cite may be used for titles of works mentioned in passing, not just citations.

This contradicts several examples from the manual:

• 7.4.5.1: <cite>Chaucer</cite>
• 7.10.5.3: <cite>—<abbr class="eoc" epub:type="z3998:personal-name">W. T. G.</abbr></cite>
• 8.2.13.1: <cite><i epub:type="se:name.publication.book">Maximes</i>, <i xml:lang="la">fr</i> <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">M. G.</abbr> De Levis.</cite>
• 8.5.2.1: <cite>Chaucer</cite>
• Pretty much the entire first part of 8.17

And given the examples in the spec, it seems that 8.2.11.2 would be updated to italicize titles using cite.

[acabal]

Yes, we're just going to ignore that for now. I don't think that is a useful definition of the element and updating the corpus would be too much work right now.