- From: Elias Torres <elias@torrez.us>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:48:03 -0500
ryan king wrote: > On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Elias Torres wrote: > >> There's plenty of documentation/code/test cases for *specific* >> microformats but no general rules for let's say additional fields in an >> hCard. Let me know if I'm missing any other documentation or overall >> principle in microformats. > > You're not missing anything. There is no documentation for "additional > fields in an hCard". There is no extensibility mechanism for individual > microformats because it's not necessary. If you want to create a new > vocabulary to use along with hCard, just start using it in your markup. > If it becomes popular enough, you might be able to get it added to hCard > (if it ever in the future diverges from a 1:1 mapping from vCard). I guess that's the crux of the matter here. You believe that "it's not necessary" to extend microformats. I believe we do. Ian gives me the impression that all you need is class/rel/profile to have a fully extensible and capable HTML and it might be the case with extra text processing within class values. But I'd rather have a small new set of attributes specific for this purpose. BTW, we will still use class, rel and profile, just need about, property and content/datatype. As IBM we are not expecting our formats to become "popular", we just want our customers/products to use validated HTML for their applications. We shouldn't need to ask microformats to include our product attributes in their specs everytime we think of a new feature. -Elias > > -ryan > >> ryan king wrote: >>> On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Elias Torres wrote: >>>> If you can read in the uF wiki [1] there's really not much guidance on >>>> how to parse >>>> one or all of them. >>> >>> There is more documentation than you suggest. See [1], which documents >>> how to parse hcards. Much of the hCard parsing guideline apply more >>> generally (extracting those common bits is on my todo list). >>> >>> Also, please note that we have a suite of test cases. The stable and >>> agreed upon ones are here [2] and you can see work in progress in our >>> mercurial repository [3]. >>> >>> -ryan >>> >>> 1. http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing >>> 2. http://microformats.org/tests/ >>> 3. http://hg.microformats.org/tests/ >>> > >
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