On Oct 25, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:
Thanks Charles.
However I still have no idea why these things apply to specifying
which page
among of group of equivalent pages is authoritative and why
Microformats do
not. The latter seem a perfect fit to me, and what you listed
either don't
apply to general web pages, are years off and can't be used today,
are not
related, or don't provide the features needed. The microformat
concept would
work perfectly for this (and similar problems.)
I think the key difference is the subject of this thread.
Microformats are good for visible data. Other formats are good for
invisible data. Most of what Charles listed is in wide use today.
You just don't see it because it's not on the visible web. If the
data you want to describe is also not on the visible web, it's
probably more appropriate for one of these invisible data formats.
Consider reuse of the data. Microformats have less invisible reuse
potential because they don't fit a general schema like RDF or XSD.
But microformats have more visible reuse potential because, well, the
data is visible. If your data is invisible and you tried to format
it with microformats, you'd be losing both invisible reuse potential
and visible reuse potential. You can pound that nail with a
screwdriver, but why would you?
Peace,
Scott
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