On 18 Aug 2007, at 11:42, Andy Mabbett wrote:

As an aside; in the case of, say:

        <abbr
                class="honorifc-prefix
                title="Member of the Order of the British Empire">
        MBE
        </abbr>

there should probably also be, say, a class="ufnousetitle", so that the
value of the honorific prefix is "MBE":

        <abbr
                class="honorifc-prefix ufnousetitle"
                title="Member of the Order of the British Empire"

        MBE
        </abbr>

obviating the need for a separate wrapper to achieve that result.

This seems somewhat clumsy to me, since a conforming HTML parser should read <abbr class="honorific-suffix" title="Doctor of Philosophy">Ph.D</a> as something along the lines of 'Ph.D is an honorific suffix, which is an abbrevation of Doctor of Philosophy'. So, it seems to me, a more elegant solution would be to require microformats parsers to be conforming parsers, in terms of the HTML spec.

Adding additional classes to account for non-conforming parsers just feels icky to me.

Jim

Jim O'Donnell
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