Michael MD wrote:
> >UK is the abbreviated form of United Kingdom. As
such, it should be in
> >the content of the tag, or else using the abbr
element is unnecessary.
> >However, I have no clue as to whether the class
country- name is
> >appropriate for country codes, which seems to be
the issue. I was just
> >commenting on the general html.
>
>
> It looks like what is really needed is a standard way
to represent standard
> country codes - so that machines can look up related
information for the
> country without the hit and miss problems of freeform
text names for
> places. (but keeping it simple for parsers or authors)
I've decided that for my purposes the best thing is to spell
out the
country name and let the user's client sort out how to do
(or not do)
abbreviation. Otherwise we might just have formatted
address labels with
no structure inside.
-mark
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