Hi, I have just finnished reading both proposals, and here are some of my thoughts.
Regarding the Straw man proposal, the symbol class seems to be unnecesary since the symbol in most price representations is just a convention to define which currency we are speaking of. So there is no actual need to explicitly mark it up as such, since User agents can (quite simply) derive it from the ISO code in any transformations that they might need to do. This is so, regardless of whether the symbol is present or not in the actual text. ie: <span class="currency" title="USD"> $<abbr class="amount" title="100.99">100 and 99 cents</abbr> </div> Can be interpreted the same way by the User Agent as: <span class="currency" title="USD"><abbr class="amount" title="100.99">100.99</abbr></div> The same thing can be said of the unit class in both proposals. Guillaume's example from his last mail: <span class="money"><span class="amount">70</span> <abbr class="currency" title="USD">US</abbr> <abbr class="unit" title="cent">cents</abbr></span> Can be Marked up, quite consistently as: <span class="money"><span class="amount" title="0.70">70</span> <abbr class="currency" title="USD">US</abbr> cents</span> Since 0.70 USD is 70 cents. Remember that there might be text within a microformat that is to be discarded by a User Agent. An example of this from the hCard specification: <span class="tel"><span class="type">Home</span> (<span class="type">pref</span>erred): <span class="value">+1.415.555.1212</span> </span> The "erred):" text outside the type proprety is to be discarded by the User Agent. One thing I notice is that both in the Straw man proposal and in Gillaume's one, there is still the problem of how amounts are differently expressed across different countries. ie: 1,000.99 or 1.000,99 to represent a thousand and 99 cents of the currency. Has any thought been given of linking this to the language definition of the document (similar to the way that OSs handle locale)?. Ie: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US"> .... .... On Sale now for: <span class="currency" title="EUR"> $<abbr class="amount">100.99</abbr> </div> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="es-AR" lang="es-AR"> .... .... Oferta: <span class="currency" title="EUR"> US$<abbr class="amount">100,99</abbr> </div> Should both be understood as 100.99 EUR. And If some markup falls outside the scope of the locale it can be explicitelly marked up with the amount class. What do you think of this idea? Does any other solution has been proposed for this problem? Emiliano Martínez Luque _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
