On Apr 30, 2007, at 8:20 PM, James Craig wrote:
We can use rel on links, but could rel be used to permit something
like this on a span:
<span class="dtstart" rel="datetime:YYYYMMDDTHHMMSSZ+HHMM">DD
Month</span>
Hi John, I'm glad you mentioned this. It's been discussed before
and shot down given the reference, "namespaces considered harmful."
http://microformats.org/wiki/namespaces-considered-harmful
I consider that wiki entry to be an opinion piece.
The use of namespaces is really irrelevant in this case, as 1) rel is
only allowed on <a> and 2) dates aren't relationships. Adding
namespaces wouldn't solve either of those problems. But on the topic
of namespaces in general, the web already has semantic initiatives
using namespaces, e.g. RDF. Microformats are currently an
alternative. Adding namespaces to microformats would remove that
alternative. Even if you think namespaces are good, removing
alternatives is a bad method of testing theories.
Peace,
Scott
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