Julian Reschke wrote:
+1
I think I do understand the benefits of microformats (I even put code
into rfc2629.xslt so that it supports hcard), but it's entirely
unclear to me why to use those over here. If microformats would have
an advantage in *general*, we wouly only design microformats, not XML
vocabularies, right? So why then the Atom XML format in the first place?
There are two clear benefits to the microformat approach for
introspection that are readily apparent:
1. reuse of an existing format
2. browser displayability
The first definitely deserves some strong consideration but is not, in
and of itself, enough of a justification. The second is questionable as
it has not yet been established that browser displayability is a core
requirement; from where I'm sitting, it's not.
- James
