Hi all, here is what I'm thinking about user comments: A user comment (e.g., in blogs, wikis, forms) can be marked as an hAtom [1] since it has a similar content pattern. A way to differentiate an hEntry (e.g., a blog post) from another hEntry (e.g., a user comment) can be done reusing "in-replies-to" [2] from Atom Threading Extensions [3]. It provides a mechanism to indicate that an entry is a response to another resource.
rel="in-repl-to" can indicate that the current hEntry is a reply to another hEntry and has a reference point @href: <a rel="in-reply-to" href="#comment_20080902144745">Parent</a> hEntries that use rel="in-reply-to" can be considered as a comment entry in response to a parent entry in the threaded conversation (e.g., in blogs, wikis, forms). hEntries that are chronologically listed can all use rel="in-repl-to" and refer to the root hEntry (e.g., blog post, form post) By reusing in-reply-to , we can solve the microformats representation for user comments [4], [5], [6]. I've put the above into hatom-brainstorming in the Wiki [7]. What do you think? [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4685#section-3 [3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4685 [4] http://microformats.org/wiki/mfcomment [5] http://microformats.org/wiki/hcomment [6] http://microformats.org/wiki/comment-brainstorming [7] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom-brainstorming#User_comment_entries Sarven Capadisli http://www.csarven.ca _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
