On Apr 18, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Timothy Gambell wrote:
Hi All,
How do I say "Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955)"
using hCard? Specifically, what is the best way of expressing a
person's life dates?
"bday" seems like an obvious choice for date of birth. Would adding
a term like "dday" be appropriate for date of death?
Or would it be better to use "dtstart" and "dtend" from hCalendar?
This feels more elegant, except that "bday" is a more semantically
precise than "dtstart".
Or maybe some hybrid? perhaps class="bday dtstart" for birthday and
class="dtend" for death date?
To go back to the beginning...
One option would be to use both. This may seem a bit convoluted, but
hopefully it can be illustrative of how microformats can be overlaid.
<div class="vcard vevent">
<span class="fn summary">Albert Einstein</span>
(<abbr class="dtstart bday" title="1879-03-14">March 14, 1879</
abbr -
<abbr class="dtend" title="1955-04-18">April 18, 1955</abbr>)
</div>
A couple notes:
1. Using vevent class name without a surrounding vcalendar class name
implies that the entire document is a vcalendar.
2. You could optionally add the class name ddady (or some other
semantic, meaninful class name) to the dtend property. (more
explanation at [1])
-ryan
1. http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-
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