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Question & Answer Examples
Examples of questions & answers on web pages.
Contributors
General
- Google search for "faq"
- http://microformats.org/wiki/faq - this 'wiki'
- Note use of list of Qs as table of contents, then repeated with respective answers.
- http://www.met.police.uk/dataprotection/faq.htm
- http://mnnc.net/faq
- use of definition list, dl/dt/dd tags
- http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
- uses definition lists, dl/dt/dd tags
- http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq
- another definition list based Q/A example
- http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp
- question/answer indicated by class of divs
- http://www.webstandards.org/learn/faq/
- complex, outline style with questions grouped in hierarchies
- The Firefox faq is marked up with <dl> http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq as is the old Mozilla 1.5 FAQ: http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/profile.html#newprofile Both of them are separated into sections and have tables of contents.
- For the W3C XHTML faq, the table of contents is in an ordered list, and contains urls that point to the question/answer fragments below. The question answer fragments are an h3 element paired with one or more p elements.
- For the Brainstorms and Raves article on HTML, XHTML, and Structure, the faq is definition list enclosed in a div element of the class faq. Questions are inside of dt elements, and answers inside of dd elements. If a question has multiple answers, there would be a seperate dd element for each answer.
Multi-page FAQs
- http://www.nhs.uk/England/NoAppointmentNeeded/WalkInCentres/Default.aspx
- Lists of questions on one page, repeated, singly, with single answer on separate page.
Questions lacking specificity
- http://www.ratemds.com/faq.jsp
- What is the purpose of this site?
- could be: what is the purpose of ratemds.com?
- Who can rate?
- "Who can rate MDs on ratemds.com?
- What is your privacy policy?
- What is the privacy policy of ratemds.com?
- What is the purpose of this site?
Supplementary questions
- http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/leap.html
- several examples, e.g. "What makes you think that's the correct rule?"
Non-questioning questions
- http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/faq.shtml
- "sign me up" (the last item)
Formats
NOTE: This should really be moved to qa-formats.
- DocBook has a <qandaset> element http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/qandaset.html which is used with <question> and <answer> elements, and optionally <qandadiv> elements.