On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 02:29 +0100, Nick Swan wrote: > just to let you know, posted to LC mailing list and they confirmed > that it would only parse the hcard in, in the format you can copy out. > They are working to improve the demo page so it parses all hcard > formats.
I'm curious as to why parsing is required. Couldn't they just use the literal html snippet (possibly normalising to xhtml, and stripping out potential nasties)? I would have thought that parsing of the html should be deferred to whatever you paste it into. The intermediatary (the web browser performing the cut and paste) may have reason to try and understand the content itself, but by parsing the content as a hcard and pumping a new "equivalent" hcard out the outher side there is a potential for unfortunate data loss. If it wants to analyse the content it may, but it should then paste as close to the verbatim input as it can achieve. Benjamin. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
