Chris asked:
Question: would you mark up Twitter statuses with hatom or hcalendar?
The reason I ask is that Jeremy Keith's lifestream uses hcalendar --
and that statuses have either a title or content, but not both --
whereas the status itself could be consider the hcalendar summary...
This is a really good question. My first thought was "Yeah, why
*didn't* I use hAtom?" After all, there's nothing to stop me using
both hCalendar and hAtom...
So I started editing the template and I hit a snag: I don't have an
author listed for each entry. Author is required for hAtom. Now, I
could just put a single hCard somewhere within the hAtom feed and
that would solve the problem:
From http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom:
"If the Entry Author is missing, find the Nearest In Parent <address>
element(s) with class name author and that is/are a valid hCard"
But I'm not publishing an <address> already and isn't the whole idea
of microformats that we don't change *what* we're publishing, just
add more meaning to what we're already publishing?
Of course, I can go ahead and add the hAtom classes anyway:
http://lifestream.adactio.com/
But that's not a valid hAtom feed.
I have to say that I find it a little weird that author is required
but entry-title is not. Looking at the Atom spec, "title" is a
required feed element and "author" is recommended. For hAtom, that's
been inverted:
http://atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/#requiredFeedElements
This has probably been discussed before, right? If anybody has some
URLs pointing to previous discussions of this issue, that'd be much
appreciated.
Bye,
Jeremy
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Jeremy Keith
a d a c t i o
http://adactio.com/
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