On 11/24/05, Brian Suda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not avocating something for discivery MUST be built. I am saying > "lets look at how other guys have tried to figure this out, has it > worked, or failed, and what can we learn from that?" >
Right on. > HTML has been successfully broken down into several pieces, CSS for > presentation, HTML for data, and Javascript as yet another layer. > > Microformats use HTML as the data layer, XMDP as the decription layer, > but there is no discovery (maybe there doesn't need to be?). > I think we can really benefit from some discovery mechanism rather than being limited to the blind crawl. > As Luke pointed out: > > Software that uses distributed uF data may want to > > see where all the uF data is and not get caught up > > in crawling the whole web. Context: REST APIs. > > > > - Luke > > the advantage of saying what you have available will minumized the > crawl space. I can get one file that tells me everything, or crawl the > entire 40,000 Avon hCard pages to try to get the same thing. > Or just links to full cards that match a search. > Look at Google Sitemaps, that is a single file that describes the > pages on the site, along with last-update time. This helps to limit > un-needed crawls, bandwidth, time, etc. > > This aproach has its downsides as well. Data drift is my biggest concern. > Drift is always going to be an issue. "Cool URLs don't change." What I am after is a way to represent distributed datasets (paginated listings and various related items) with uFs. A REST style service will often provide some listing (hopefully XOXO): GET /contacts ... <li> <a href="/larry#hCard" title="Larry" class="disco-hCard">Larry</a> </li> <li> <a href="/moe#hCard" title="Moe" class="disco-hCard">Moe</a> </li> ... Follow a link in the listing to get a full editable hCard. GET /larry#hCard [ Larry's hCard ] Parse and edit larries info then PUT it back. PUT /larry/#hCard [ Larry's modified hCard ] Sorry for getting so hypothetical. I promise to write a formal problem statement and start gathering examples strait away, if there is interest. :-) Does anyone else feel that this is worth getting started on the wiki? - Luke _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
