Mike Schinkel wrote:
This is a naïve question: Doesn't the ISO 4217 code *imply* a symbol? It
appears so here: http://www.xe.com/symbols.htm Doesn't including this in
the microformat create redundancy?
Alternately, can't the symbols be extracted as not being alphanumeric
characters?
I tend to agree with you and see this as a bit redundant, but I felt I
would reproduce the suggestion for the sake of not ignoring anyone's in
the vote.
I wouldn't have guessed that meaning; I thought your were talking worldwide,
not document scope. :) So how would you mark up
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_spt_s1_d.htm ? Can you show the
actual HTML to help me better understand? (not for the entire file, just a
snippet.)
One solution is to use the include-pattern only; another solution is to
use the th scope only (if the currency is present in the column header),
or a combination of the two:
amounts in <span id="#u1" class="currency">USD</span>.
...
<tr>
<th scope="col">price<a href="#u1" class="include"></a></th>
<td>24</td>
</tr>
If so, wouldn't that argue for "combination with
units (ex. $34 per gallon, $2 per miles)" being out of scope and begging the
need for a microformat that allows unit designation, i.e. hUnits?
We came to the same conclusion. A separate measure effort was started:
http://microformats.org/wiki/measure
Anyway, I made a proposal here:
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Mike_Schinkel with the
idea of trying to minimize the burden placed on the author of the HTML, and
only use lots of markup in the exceptional cases.
You have some good points there. That said, I think that currency should
not be the root class, money should be, since semantically (to me) $35
is not a currency, it is money, and currency is part of money. But I see
the benefits of briefness.
My last thought on the subject, is why are we using full names for currency
and amount instead of "cur" and "amt" to minimize bloat when hCard uses
names like "fn?"
Good point too.
I will try to document the different options presented over the last
days. It does not seem that we will get a 100% on all feature
implementations, so I guess it will be up for the community to decide
through a vote, or limit the feature scope to what is 100% agreed,
namely currency disambiguation.
Thank you,
Guillaume
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