Le 06-04-27 à 16:50, Steven Livingstone a écrit :
Less formal creations such as RSS never suffered from that as much
(in constrast to say NewsML which had a much more specific goal -
the XSD is around 30 pages long). Look at the contrast of something
like XML-RPC versus SOAP/WSDL and so on. The former does a nice job
for online services without too much effort - the latter can
require a LOT of work (although tool support is getting better) and
is better suited in formal environments.
Don't get me wrong, there is sometimes a need for detailed specs
and so on, but there is also a need for simple, effective formats,
which Microformats do very well.
That is called Modularization and has nothing to do with microformats
but the choice of structural organization of a technology. What you
said is valid for *any* specifications. Take the microformats in 5
years, add all the "modules" (hcard, hreview, …) etc. And you will
have a huge specification too.
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