On [Nov 7], at [ Nov 7] 8:09 , Rob Crowther wrote:
Thus, this will parse:
<span class="dtstart"><span class="value" title="2008-11-04"></
span>4th
November</span>
But this will fail:
<span class="dtstart">On 4th November 2008 Barack Obama was elected
the
first African American president of the United States of American.
He was
really pleased about it. <span class="value" title="2008-11-04"></
span>
</span>
I'm not sure I understand the benefit here
As Ben wrote:
DRY is a problem when data is repeated in a document and risks one
copy of the data not being maintained in sync with another.
The benefit is to minimize this problem.
will this also parse?
<span class="dtstart"><span class="value" title="2008-11-04">Barack
Obama was elected the
first African American president of the United States of American,
and he was
really pleased about it, on 4th November 2008</span>
</span>
Not as a valid dtstart value, no. The title attribute is only parsed
when the value element is empty, so that would parse with an invalid
dtstart value containing the entire sentence. See:
http://microformats.org/wiki/value-excerption-pattern-issues#Parsing_title_from_Empty_value_Elements
Peace,
Scott
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