Thanks a lot Brian. I have implemented your suggestions. Here is the document:
http://www.xfront.com/microformats/examples/hResume/example01/revised-D errick-Crane-resume.html There are a few other events in that document that I am stymied as to how to represent the dates: 1. The person was a co-op engineer in the Fall of 1997. How do I represent dtstart and dtend for "Fall of 1997"? 2. The person was an assistant mechanic during the summers of 1993, 1994, 1995. How do I represent dtstart and dtend for "summers of 1993, 1994, 1995"? 3. The person was a mini-baja participant during Fall 1996 - Spring 1997. How do I represent dtstart and dtend for "Fall 1996 - Spring 1997"? Thanks! /Roger -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Suda Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:16 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Expressing an event that only has an end date? On 1/21/07, Costello, Roger L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question #1: > > I want to use vevent to markup this information. Notice that there is > only one date specified - May, 1998 - which is the ending date of his > education. > > What do I use as the start date (i.e., the value of dtstart)? --- well OFFICIALLY in the iCalendar spec, nothing is required (which seems abit strange), but we have always said that 'summary' and 'dtstart' are required, because that makes the most sense as a minumum. In your case you only want a DTEND. Now technically a DTSTART is not required, but i have no idea what would happen in a calendar app if you tried to import that. One simple work around is to do something like: <abbr title="1998-05-01" class="dtend dtstart dtstamp">May '98</abbr> Then you atleast get a start and end date and calendar apps might be slightly more friendly. > Question #2 > > How do I markup a date such as "May, 1998"? Notice that there is no > day specified. Do I assume it to be May 1, 1998, and mark it up as > > <abbr class="..." title="1998-05-01">May 1998</abbr> --- you can certainly just add the '-01' and/or omit the day portion. It will still be a valid ISO date with just "1998-05" although i have no idea what will happen when you try to import that into outlook or other calendar apps. I would suggest that you create either the hCalendars, one with no '-01' and with it. Same for the Question #1, create an hCalendar with no start date and a start and end date of the same time. Then send-us the URLs and we as a community can test them in different calendaring applications. I honestly don't know what will happen and who will support what, or how it would even be represented in the GUI. Once we have documented application behavior then we can better make a recommendation of the "prefered" way to mark-up the data for best interoperability. -brian -- brian suda http://suda.co.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
