Hi all, A quick email that the Zend_Microformat Proposal is now ready for community review. http://framework.zend.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=42373
The overview: Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging). Zend_Microformat will form the backbone of a set of both compound and elemental microformats implemented and proposed separately (so anyone else can take part in the fun!). The initial microformat targeted for implementation is the XHTML Friends Network (XFN) microformat. Should this proposal be accepted into the Zend Framework, subsequent proposals will be made for many others such as hCard, XOXO, etc. The purpose of the core Zend_Microformat component is to act as an overall URL fetcher and parser which targets any desired microformat to be parsed from the resulting HTML/XHTML and returned in a more specific collection object per microformat. The same will be achievable using the sub-components for each microformat, but having a central utility class just offers more consistency to the overall API and is simply easier to use. Your comments are most welcome. Best regards, Paddy Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.patternsforphp.com OpenID Europe Foundation
