I just added a section to the hCard parsing about the DEL element.[1] It is conceivable that a person would want to <DEL>[2] an old address or phone number, etc in their hCard. In doing so they are saying that they do NOT consider this information correct, but needs to be in the revision. It is common to see on a blog where the author was corrected. This is where an INS and DEL could find use. In doing so, when the parsing application scans the text (i think) it should avoid any microformated data that is a child of a DEL element.
For instance, if you wrote an hReview that berates a movie theater for their policies. Later you find it NOT to be part of the policy, but that of a stupid employee. You correct yourself with the INS and DEL. When the spider extracts your hReview of the Theater, SHOULD it include the DEL portion? Things like vCard/iCal have no provisions for versioning of the data, so the reader would not know that you "removed" the mistake of blaming the theater - in fact the text would probably read very strange to get all the DELs, INSs, and normal text all run together. So my vote would be to ignore all DEL and their children when extracting Microformats. Anyone see otherwise? -brian [1] - http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing#DEL_element [2] - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#h-9.4 -- brian suda http://suda.co.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
