On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Dan Brickley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Breton Slivka wrote: >> >> I think this sort of counter argument is a straw man. The proposal >> from Guillaume was not to write a natural language parser that can >> parse any kind of human written date. The proposal was to parse a very >> specific and standardized format of date. If one were to write >> "Oktober", the specified behavior for parsers should be to fail, and >> possibly throw errors. >> >> I for one, strongly agree with this approach. Essentially the problem >> with the ABBR problem that the microformat community faces, is a set >> of three restrictions, all applied, results in a set of 0 solutions. >> Every solution I've seen so far only satisfies two of those >> restrictions, and is immediately shot down by someone in the community >> who thinks the third restriction is invoilatable. >> >> the restrictions: >> >> 1. No information hiding >> 2. Humans first, machines second. >> 3. It must be in a format that's easily machine parsable. >> >> You see the problem here? You guys are going to have to comprimise on >> one of these three damned restrictions, or face irrelevance! > > I suggests a 4th should be taken very seriously: > > 4. Respect the natural language, calendar, and writing system preferences of > the human content author. > > cheers, > > Dan >
I thought that was implied by restriction #2, and thus leads to proponents of restriction #3 getting in a hoot because perfectly satisfying #2 is too hard. so from there you can either comprimise #2 or #1 to satisfy proponents of #3. violating #2 is a bad idea, but if you violate #1, Tantek steps in and says you can't do that. Since it's difficult to overcome the influence and authority of Tantek in this community, comprimising #3 is the only way you can go. Otherwise the argument is just going to go around in circles forever. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss