Hi Scott, Thanks for your reply.
Scott Reynen wrote: > On Jan 25, 2007, at 3:01 PM, stephen mulcahy wrote: > > ... >> .... >> I guess in most cases this info is already on manufacturers websites, >> but its certainly not amenable to scraping and parsing semantically (and >> maybe its not in the interests of the manfacturers to provide the >> information in a format that lets me easily compare them to other >> manufacturers) but it strikes me that if they did .. it would be really, >> really easy for me to go to all the major manufacturers websites, suck >> them their microformatted data and then analyse it off line - I see >> something like an openoffice datapilot table (microsoft excel pivot >> table) where I can click various filters to match my criteria above and >> sort the output according to something like price and voila, my choices >> are obvious - is there a microformat that lends itself to this sort of >> thing already. >> >> Is this the kind of scenario that microformats could meet or am I way >> off of the mark? > > See hProduct and hListing: > > http://microformats.org/wiki/product > http://microformats.org/wiki/hlisting > > These have been in progress for a while, and if you're interested in > this area, I'd encourage you to review the process, look at what's > missing in the wiki, and try to move this forward to a microformat that > will suit your needs. > I've taken a look at hProduct and it sounds like it "kind of" matches my requirements, or is a start in that direction. I'm not sure about using the 'p-v' class for capturing the details of each different product type though - in effect the existing hProduct proposal is a proposal for how to define hProduct microformats (since the 'meat' of a hProduct microformat for any particular type of product will be in the 'p-v' class ... but maybe thats where we need to start. I wonder should I start by proposing a set of p-v's that could be used to describe notebooks and work from there? I guess the hard part is going to be getting someone (ideally a manufacturer) to adopt the format - anyone out there working for any of the big notebook makers? :) -stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.skynet.ie/~stephen/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
