I'd second that.

Even if users are just plopping blobs of data that is recognizable to humans when presented in a blog, but unstructured, we can still make sense
of those blobs and structure them.

Seeing what people want to do makes more sense that imposing from on high. That is typical of standard's bodies and in practice not often followed.

For an example of this, where some standards from on high, are compared to some standards that emerged, in video metadata, see this:

http://microformats.org/wiki/media-metadata-examples#Comparison_Table

mary

Mary Hodder
Founder:  Dabble
Blogs:  Dabble.com/blog
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On Sep 12, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Scott Reynen wrote:

On Sep 12, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote:

Would it not be better for ufs to standardise markup based on the domain
model than waste time wading through flakey html? [Perhaps]

I don't believe looking at current publishing practices is a waste of time at all. Much the opposite, I think it's the most important part of the process. Domain models that don't account for what is published on the real web tend to be less useful on the real web.

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Scott Reynen
MakeDataMakeSense.com


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