- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 00:57:55 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Cc: Andrew Ramsden <andrew@irama.org>, Andrew Sidwell <takkaria@gmail.com>, aurélien levy <aurelien.levy@free.fr>, public-html@w3.org
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Ben Boyle wrote: > > I have a use case for this, from a while back where I found it > difficult to apply the hCard microformat to content marked up with DL > [1] > > Sample HTML: > ... > <di class="tel"> > <dt class="type">Fax</dt> > <dd class="value">#### ####</dd> > </di> > ... > > > Take away the <di> and it becomes necessary to use all kinds of > redundant tags (or as I was told on the microformats wiki, "don't use > definition lists in this manner".) > > ... > <dt>Fax</dt> > <dd class="tel"><span class="type">Fax</span><span class="value">#### > ####</span</dd> > ... > > That's my use case. I never said it was great :) I think it's a fine use case, but I don't think it needs any changes to HTML. Why can't the microformats parsers just be defined such that they respect the semantics of a <dl>, and allow the use of a class on <dt> to indicate something about the associated <dd>s? Isn't the whole point of microformats to leverage the semantics of HTML? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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