On 20/10/06, Brian Suda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- the tricky thing is that there are no namespaces in Microformats, so if you use cur, sure it is scopped to 'money', but it is now a 'reserved word' for all of microformats. As it was pointed out in a previous message, then what happens to 'cursor' or 'current', you can't do: <span class="time"><span class="cur">now()</span></span> even thought that 'cur' is scoped to some ficticious 'time', it still would mean 'currency'.
This is what I suspected and is why I'm uncomfortable with using "sci" in the species microformat. I mean, for me, if that were to be used as an abbreviation, it would be for the word "science" (as in sci-fi), rather than "scientific name". If the species uF were to grab it, then no other future format could then use it, even if said future format needed an abbreviation of the word "sci". All hypothetical, of course, but you catch my drift. As microformats proliferate, I think the namespace issue could become more troublesome. It's best to think carefully about these issues now, rather than a few months/years down the line when it becomes more of a problem. I'm personally holding out for "cur" to be used in a curry microformat. ;) Cheers, Charles _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
