Hello, I myself am new to the discussion list, though perhaps I might be
able to shed *some* light on your question.
From what I understand, if a page includes microformats, that page
/should/ link to an xmdp profile for each microformat in the head of the
document. This allows for autodiscovery, validation, and mechanism for
defining a microformat.
-Breton
Phil Haack wrote:
Hello, forgive me if this question comes across as naïve or uninformed as I
am new to the list, but I have tried to soak in as much information as
quickly as possible via the wiki and mailing list, but haven't found an
answer to something I've been thinking about.
I was considering writing a simple Javascript that would iterate elements in
a page and somehow highlight any and all microformats in use on a page. The
trouble is there appears to be no common identifier for microformats that
would indicate that a snippet of XHTML is a microformat. I'd have to know
the format for all possible microformats ahead of time, which of course is
impossible since the creation of a microformat is distributed, correct?
I can see such a script as being useful as a Bookmarklet to show a user
which elements of a page are microformats.
My first question, is there some common identifier that I'm just missing?
Second, is there a philosophical or practical reason not to have some
identifier? One reason I can think of is that it may be slightly unwieldy.
<div class="vcard">...</div>
Might become
<div class="microformat vcard">...</div>
Or
<div class="mf vcard">...</div>
Perhaps an auto-discovery mechanism or "table of contents" Microformat might
be helpful in this case? I'm still trying to catch up on where the
auto-discovery discussion is currently situated. I wrote a post on some
thoughts here (relevant part starts 3rd para down
http://haacked.com/archive/2006/03/21/Mix06MicroformatsAutodiscovery.aspx)
in the hopes that someone would enlighten me a bit ;)
Thanks for your time!
Phil
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