> So what I'm looking for are various discussions on what microformats > accomplish that XML language formats don't do as well given the goals of > microformats. >
It's worth considering that microformats can be embedded in any XML document where (X)HTML can be used... From: http://microformats.org/wiki/ <quote> Semantic HTML Design Principles XHTML is built on XML, and thus XHTML based formats can be used not only for convenient display presentation, but also for general purpose data exchange. In many ways, XHTML based formats exemplify the best of both HTML and XML worlds. </quote> As far as I can tell, it's a whole lot easier to embed HTML in content enclosed by XML formats like Atom or RDF/RSS, rather than the other way round. Also, with regards to the earlier point about Dublin Core - the DC standard is mostly about specifying an set of metadata elements to record information about items in a large collection of content. So it is similar to Microformats like hReview in some respects, though more general, and more complex. But DC elements are not specifically tied to XML syntax, they could be serialized in any number of ways (same goes for RDF too). I see the main contrast being in terms of generality vs specificity. Each Microformat is targeted at a single specific problem, and attempts to solve it in a simple way focusing on common use cases. Many other formats (RDF in particular) are designed to solve general and much broader problems across a range of domains. Hope this helps. /Mark _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
