James M Snell wrote:
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
...
But is it an existing format that we can normatively refer to?
Last time I checked (is <http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo> the right
place?), the authors *intended* to submit the spec to a standards body
at some point in the future. I don't think that's sufficient for the
spec this working group is working on.
Best regards, Julian
