On 06/03/07, Kevin Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 5, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: > Thought this might be useful: > > http://dannyayers.com/misc/microformats/soupdragon http://epeus.blogspot.com/2007/03/hot-news-people-lie.html
As Scott points out, this is missing the point. It's irrelevant whether or not the publisher is telling the truth or lying, the object here is for information to be faithfully conveyed from producer to consumer. Profile URIs don't rule out ad hoc scraping of microformat data, they just make it possible for producers and consumers to use the relevant specifications and follow general good practice of web architecture if they want.
Or, as we say round here, 'not 80%'
Your 80% maybe, but not everyone's. A couple of days ago Edd asked on #swig about making XTech schedule data available through GRDDL. The immediate response was "use microformats". GRDDL is tool which allows automatic extraction of data from XML, including XHTML, and is entirely consistent with the conventions of microformats.org. GRDDL relies on the use of profile URIs, as defined by the HTML spec and accepted by microformats.org. However there wasn't a profile URI available for hCalendar. Dan Connolly provided an easy solution, minting a URI (http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/hcal) for this purpose. But it would in everyone's interests if profile URIs were minted with the prior blessing of microformats.org, having a single URI for each microformat makes life considerably easier for publishers and tool developers wishing to make use of them. Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
