Re: microformats, profiles, and taking back rel/class names [standardizedFieldValues-51]

On 7/17/07, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Why not instead of
>
> <div class2="http://example.org/human-resources/employee">
>
> just do
>
> <div class="employee" profile="http://example.org/human-resources/">

Because no software which knows of @class knows about @profile, making
that snippet semantically identical to this one;

<div class="employee" profile="http://example.org/foo/bar/">

Using a new attribute makes it unambiguous.

Mark.
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