XOXO is definately the way to go. In fact, you suggestion of parseing 'OL XHTML' is exactly what XOXO is! If you use <ol> for the XOXO list (instead of <ul>), then order definately has semantic meaning, most parsers return elements in order either way. No fear of polluting the XOXO 'world' -- XOXO being the most general microformats spec it can be used for anything. While it is a rival to OPML, it is also the 'super-microformat' and will work for almost any application, especially simple lists. Any <ol> or <ul> tag in XHTML is automatically XOXO according to the rules of the format anyway :) -- Singpolyma
On 8/29/06, Paul Kinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Thats a pretty cool answer. I was looking into xoxo, it looked like > what I might use opml for. But I wasn't too sure if I were to use > xoxo in the manner that I intend then it might polute the xoxo > "world". > > I thought about using hReview, but it seems like an overkill to me > right now, because I am thinking that perhaps the OL signifies the > significance of each element implicity, at least that is what I think > at the moment. I will look into VoteLink too. > > Kind Regards, > Paul Kinlan > > On 29/08/06, Kevin Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul, XOXO is a way to represent (nested) lists using <ol> and <dl> > > that maps well into programming languages - worth a look for what we > > have already done: > > > > http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo > > On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote: > > > > > Yeah, I would like to be able to understand what the list is "about", > > > so something like a title would give a good descriptive meaning to > > > what the items in the list relate to. > > > > > > For instance the title could be "Favorite Films", obviously the LI's > > > would then be order of the favorites. > > > > > > Title was one of the only attributes that I thought could be used to > > > determine what the list is about. I was also initially thinking about > > > putting a class attribute saying something like "positive" or > > > "negative" for the ordering of the elements in the list. > > > > This sounds like it may map to hReview's ratings or vote-links, if you > > are storing an attribute for each item. > > > > > It is just that I would like to be able to write a progam that can > > > parse lists of information that has a meaning so that I can merge more > > > than one list together. > > > > > > Obviously OL, LI inferes a kind of semantic meaning, and I could > > > already use the OL's without getting everyone to adopt a new format > > > such as rel=tag etc. > > > > > > I am just looking into ideas and trying to see if people already do > > > this kind of thing. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > microformats-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss >
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