On Feb 7, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Derrick Lyndon Pallas wrote:
Yes, there are other ways to solve the problem; in fact, I do solve the problem in an unelegant way. My real issue now is (as laid out above) the resistance to real discussion of the problem.
I think what you're seeing is that microformats value publishers above parsers. Anything that makes publishing even marginally more difficult to make parsing easier is a non-starter. As long as parsing is *possible* (and you seem to agree it is), that's good enough for microformats. The theory is if we can make it absolutely as easy as possible for publishers, they'll flood the web with semantic content, and parsers will work through the difficulty to get that content. And you'll find plenty of interest here in helping through the difficulty. But not much in shifting any (not even a bit) of the difficulty onto publishers. That's just fundamentally not how microformats are designed.
If you want a general means of consuming microformat content, just consume RDF. GRDDL [1] converts specific microformats to RDF, so any RDF consumer is effectively a generic microformats consumer. When new microformats are developed, they'll end up in RDF as soon as someone works out the GRDDL, and you won't need to update your RDF consumer at all.
[1] http://www.w3.org/2004/01/rdxh/spec Peace, Scott _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
