Mark P. is on the right track here as usual, I think. What has been glossed over in this convo is that underlying the discomfort that has been expressed on the validation front here is this:
Sure you can validate a microformat reasonably well (though it may be difficult to validate format transformations that result in microformats) but there is not meta-microformat (god, did I just say that?!?) to conduct validation automatically (ie without manually translating the spec into rules that your validator can understand) We have profiles, of course but they are not machine readable like a schema for tower of babel XML (XSD or RNG or what not). I agree with the previous comment that schematron is probably the most promising alternative for uf. Cheers, - Luke _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
