Generalized annotations

  • annotations were added mainly to improve accessibility

  • two new elements

    • alt—short inline annotation

    • annotation—arbitrary long, out-of-the-band annotation

  • accessibility example:

    <acronym>XML<alt>Extensible
    Markup Language</alt></acronym> namespaces

    will be turned into the following HTML:

    <acronym title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</acronym> namespaces