On Mar 24, 2006, at 8:58 PM, Breton Slivka wrote:
I've only just recently figured out what xmdp's are, and what
they're capable of. I notice the structure of your hcard/hreview/
hcalendar thing is such that you can pick an attribute, and search
for bits of data which contain that attribute. Have you attempted
to detect and parse XMDP's not for validation, but to discover new
microformats not documented at microformats.org? Now don't get me
wrong, I understand the importance of strong standardization, but
say someone creates a niche format for their own site, and related
sites in their community with an xmdp, do you think your
aggregator could use that xmdp to create new searchable attributes
in your search engine?
Sorry this is a bit of a tangent, but the idea of it kind of
fascinated me.
Generally, I think that could work, but XMDP is very limited in the
machine-readable information it provides, so it wouldn't be much more
useful than just cataloging all class names found. Also, there aren't
that many microformats currently. And if there were microformats
springing up all over the place, I think this might be better handled
by just creating XSL transformations of each microformat to RDF.
Peace,
Scott
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