- From: André Luís <andreluis.pt@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:45:05 +0100
On 19 April 2011 22:36, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Justin Karneges <justin at affinix.com> > wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 April 2011 03:27:30 Rob Crowther wrote: > >> Justin Karneges wrote: > >> > Given that it is meant primarily as a data exchange protocol, explicit > is > >> > better, so I'm preferring Microdata instead of Microformats here. > >> > >> The strength of the Microformats community is in helping to define the > >> vocabulary, that's a different issue from the format you'll use to > >> represent it. > > > > Ah, I simply assumed these were two competing approaches. Does this mean > > Microdata has no community behind it to work on vocabulary? > > Microdata is a syntax for encoding vocabularies into an HTML page, > similar to how class/rel can be a syntax for encoding vocabularies. > The vocabularies themselves can be defined largely ignorant of the > encoding syntax, as long as the vocab's underlying data-structure ends > up being more-or-less tree-based (vocabularies defined for RDF are > officially graph-based, but in practice can usually be treated as > tree-based). > > > > In any case, I think the Person object defined by data-vocabulary.orgshould > > work for my purposes. But, if I feel the need to invent something new, I > can > > propose it to the Microformats community first if that's the right > process. I > > am quite new to these communities. > Hmm.. I'm not really sure we need anything more than simple HTML semantics (given by the spec) and a small microformat/microdata. I'll use <q> or <blockquote> in the example. <p> <span class="vcard"><a href="http://example.com/justin" class="url fn">Justin</span> said:</span> <q cite="http://example.com/justin/msg/12345">I agree.</q> </p> or <blockquote cite="http://example.com/justin/msg/12345"> <p>I agree.</p> <p class="vcard">? <a class="url fn" href="http://example.com/justin ">Justin</a></p> </blockquote> If you prefer microdata: (just the Person bit) <p itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Person"> <a itemprop="url" href="http://example.com/justin"> <span itemprop="name">Justin</span> </a> </p> If you still think you need a more formal vocabulary, please read: http://microformats.org/wiki/process Cheers, -- Andr? Lu?s http://id.andr3.net > Sounds acceptable. The Microformats community is friendly and open, > as far as I've experienced. Have fun! > > > ~TJ >
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