This is what <microformats-discuss@microformats.org> said about "Re: [uf-discuss] Formatting arbitra" on 7 Mar 2007 at 14:39
> From: James Craig > > In this case, I think what you are looking for is the 'datetime' > attribute on INS and DEL elements. > > <ins datetime="2007-03-05">5 March 2007</ins> Nope... > From: Paul Wilkins > > So it's not the date that's the relevant part, it's the software release > instead. Erm, neither. My usage isn't meant to refer to a change in the document in which it appears (ruling out the semantic use of <ins> and <del>), nor is it meant to refer to software releases in particular. Let me try again: <abbr title="2007-03-08">Today</abbr> I bought an old newspaper from <abbr title="2006-07-02">2 July 2006</abbr> These are arbitrary dates, NOT related to the publishing date of the document it appears in, not related to any resources such as a software release. I simply want dates occuring within prose to be recognized as machine-readable dates. This is for both for screen readers and disabiguation of dates such as 3/2/2006 or 02-03-06. It's also useful when quoting text with poorly formatted dates, without altering the presentation of the original quote, eg. The Constitution of <abbr title="1776-07-04">4/7/76</abbr> Andy Mabbett suggested a class of "dtstamp" which comes closer to what I intend, but the iCalendar property DTSTAMP is specifically meant to indicate when an iCalendar object was created, which is not the case here. Following the design pattern for dates, I think we need a semantic classname such as "datetime" which James Craig pointed out is an attribute for <ins> and <del> <abbr class="datetime" title="2006-03-02">March 2, 2006</abbr> Does such a classname for an arbitrary date/time already exist? -- -- -- -- Bob Jonkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sobac.com/sobac/ SOBAC Microcomputer Services Voice: +1-519-669-0388 6 James Street, Elmira ON Canada N3B 1L5 Cel: +1-519-635-9413 Networking -- Office & Business Automation -- Consulting PGP:0xAE33E989 Fingrprnt:9FAF A6AC B567 BC10 8973 7CF0 CB27 0317 _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss