Stephanie Hobson wrote:
Hi all,

Hi Stephanie,

I am hoping to convert a few of my clients contact pages into
microformats soon and I have been searching for a way to avoid
duplicating the organization's contact information (which is listed at
the top of the page) in the vcard (hcard?) of every person on the
page.

I remember hearing about a way using object tags on the list a few
weeks ago but my searches of the archives and the wiki have been
fruitless.  If someone could point me in the right direction, or
better yet provide an example (I find the wiki a little hard to read)
I would be grateful!

The include pattern[1] is what you're looking for. That particular page appears to be quite nicely padded out with examples, which should hopefully make things pretty clear: failing that, I'm sure one of the more experienced list members should be able to explain things more clearly than I can.

Also, since I'm asking n00b questions:  What is the difference between
vcard and hcard and what is the proper use of each?  Am I marking up
my websites with vcards or hcards?

vCard[2] is a file format for exchanging contact information; hCard[3] is a mapping of this format onto class names in HTML/XHTML/XML. Therefore you are marking up your websites with hCards.

Hope that helps,

[1]: http://microformats.org/wiki/include-pattern
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
[3]: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard

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David Thompson
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