--- Tantek Çelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it has not yet been shown by sufficient research > that a "currency at > this *historical* point in time" is a problem worthy of a > solving with a microformat.
Absolutely. A lot more work needs to be done. To take Ben's original statement of the problem, somebody asks "$50" for an item, but is that US? Canadian? Australian? Why not just write: <abbr title="US Dollars">$</abbr>50 or 50 <abbr title="US Dollars">USD</abbr> If the problem is clarifying what the funny S means, that's probably enough and no microformat is necessary. On the other hand, if we do find that more extensive markup is useful, I expect that a timestamp will be quite helpful when it comes to parsing monetary values, especially as webpages age. Maybe that's part of the currency format, maybe it ends up in some higher-level format like hListing. In any case, now it's here in the archives and we can start with the simple things. -ml _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
