In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tantek Çelik
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> Mostly microformats just markup existing data in the page so that
>machines can find it and know what type of data it is.
The name:
Rebecca Jayne Smith
can be marked up - correctly and validly - as either:
<foo class="fn">
<foo class="given-name">Rebecca</foo>
<foo class="additional-name">Jayne</foo>
<foo class="family-name">Smith</foo>
</foo>
or:
<foo class="fn">
<foo class="additional-name">Rebecca</foo>
<foo class="given-name">Jayne</foo>
<foo class="family-name">Smith</foo>
</foo>
The "given" and "additional" names are not indicated on the page; not
even by context.
>Hence why microformats focus on real world examples on the web that are
>also *common*.
And people *commonly* publish what are clearly and unambiguously (to
humans, but not, without the additional mark-up of a microformat, to
machines) home or work telephone numbers, without saying as much on the
page.
When did you last see a listing of, say, Pizza restaurants that labelled
each telephone number as "work"?
When did you last see a listing of, say, Pizza restaurants that included
the managers' home numbers?
--
Andy Mabbett
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