Re: ITS as a microformat (proposal)

Felix Sasaki wrote:
> Interesting approach ... esp. since validation is a kind of lax. What would
> you or others think of the following approach: define a grammar (below in
> ABNF form) to parse the ITS local data categories, e.g. like this:
> 
> ITSMF = itsprefix [translate] [terminology] [localizationNote]
> [directionality]
> itsprefix = "its"
> translate = "-translate-" ("yes" | "no")
> terminology = "-term" ["-termInfoRef:" IRI] ; IRI production from RFC 3987
> localizationNote = ...
> terminology = ...
> 
> That is, have the translate, terminology, localization note and
> directionality data categories all "packed" in a class attribute.

Seems little bit like a markup abuse, but microformats are all about
abuse, after all ;-)

But I don't think that IRIs should encoded inside class name, e.g.
content of termInfoRef. This way IRI is not exposed as some kind of link
in HTML representation and user agents can't directly act on it. But for
other categories your approach might work well.
	
				Jirka

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