On 3/23/07, Jeremy Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
My belief now is that hAtom 0.2 should provide a better set of
defaulting rules, especially for "author". It's crazy that hAtom
brings you 95% of the way to marking up microcontent and then lets
down what seems to be a fairly common use case. What this default
should be is a mystery, perhaps something like "page" or "anonymous"
with the "url" to be that of the page.
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
No, this [1] is what you want to be looking at.
Regards, etc...
David
[1] http://atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/#recommendedEntryElements
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