I mostly agree with tantek, but I would like to point out a few more
things to look at as far as this sort of effort goes.
XSLT provides more than enough power to describe and extract
information out of pages with microformats embedded. x2v demonstrates
this. If you're looking for a "single" implementation for
microformats, look no further than libxslt, or sabotron, or whatever
your favorite xslt engine.
The whole model for this sort of thing is laid out in GRDDL on w3's
website. Tim Berners Lee seems to advocate using the GRDDL model to
transform microformats into RDF, using xslt. RDF is about as neutral
a format for data as you're going to get.
So pretty much all the difficult problems for the sort of thing you
want have already been solved as best they can be. The difficult part
now is adoption.
On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
Yeah, I didn't really think that this topic could be solved (or even
discussed) herein.
It's a nice pipedream, but I do agree falls outside the boundaries of
the achieveable goals that we've set out w/ microformats.
Chris
On 3/30/06, Paul Bryson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Tantek Ç elik" wrote...
In practice, this never[*] happens. It's been tried *numerous*
times.
DTD,
XML Schema, etc. In practice, key portions/features of really
*useful*
specific formats (like HTML) *always* fall outside of the meta-
format, and
*must* be specified in prose of a specification. This is
specifically why
I
designed XMDP to be to absolute minimum of what is necessary to
define/recognize a vocabulary. I'm working on some extensions for
includes
(to transclude multiple XMDP profiles or portions thereof into a
single
profile), but other than that, I consider XMDP "done".
In the spirit of "don't reinvent what you can re-use", anyone
seriously
desiring to work on a format-of-formats should *first* teach
themselves
DTD,
and XML Schema *at a minimum*, before having the arrogance to
think they
can
do better.
Why aren't they just using DTD or SML Schema for this? That was
the first
thing I thought of when Joe first posted.
Atamido
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