On 11/13/06, Brian Suda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There have been a few hiccups that i am starting to uncover - so any guidance is welcomed. 1) The term "Pages" i think that actually has two meanings which i have confused in the implied schema. The first being "This book is 45 pages long" which is metadata about the book, and is in the realm of media-info microformat. Then there is "this sites pages 43-45" meaning a location. So now we need figure out what we are to do? does the first metadata become <span class="page-count">45</span> and the citation stay "pages" or do we have "start-page" and "end-page" or something else? Some systems use "pages" as a string "43-45" others have it broken out into SP (start page) 43 EP (end page) 45. I'm not sure how they handle references in something like a newspaper where the article starts on page 1 and then jumps to page 43... that is not start-end, but a list of pages. Then that leads to our "singularization" of plural terms. In vCard it is categories (plural) but we use "category" singular and just let you have multiple instances... can "pages" go the same way? the first instance of class="page" is the start page, and the last instance if the last page? Any suggestions?
Way to make my brain ache... If I'm understanding you right (and I'm thinking on the spot), you want to say that you're referencing pages W, X and Y out of Z. Surely Pages 43 - 45 is an abbreviated way of saying "this comes from pages 43, 44 and 45 of a 100 page long book". Treating it as an abbreviation also solves the newspaper issue, since you'd be saying "this comes from page 1 and 14 of a 50 page newpaper". No? Silly probably. I was just thinking about Jeremy Keith's "this Thursday" example of an abbreviation (being really a short hand for this Thursday's full date). Listing pages individually, out of a total number of pages, rather than as a range, makes total sense to me. So "<span class="page">14</span>, <span class="page">16</span> of <span class="category">50</span>." is fine. Start-page and end-page is a bit too restrictive imho. -- Frances Berriman http://fberriman.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
