Sorry, I missed it some days ago: somebody wanted to know about hTopList.

Just for fun I developed a TopList mixing hAudio and hReview, you may find it here: http://www.regine-heidorn.de/thinner.html It's an example-list of my favorite thinner-tracks and I had the following thoughts on it:

- as a TopList it has to be an ordered list (<ol>) with its ID telling the numbers of tops (5 in this case) and its class telling the whole out of which the tops are taken (thinner-tracks in this case). The whole can be a magazine, an artist, an album, a label, the genre etc. Since you can assign multiple classes it's also possible to add more information like e. g. class="thinner albums benfay" meaning: a TopList containing albums of the netlabel thinner from the artist benfay.

- it could cooperate with more microformats, the list could also contain hCalendar for events like concerts, readings, performances etc. or one could add another hReview and include videos, blog-posts and more. The artist could be named via hCard that could also be used to specify the rater or reviewer.

- the <ol> should contain exactly the number of <li>-elements that are top-rated, e. g. a top5-list should contain 5 <li>s. Same for the rating which always has to be the rating out of the whole number, e. g. 3 out of 5.



All in all it's maybe not necessary to create an own hTopList, one can just mix some elaborated microformats. Only specification to make it a TopList and not only a mixture of existing microformats would be to use an <ol> with IDs and classes as mentioned above and the obligation to use exactly the number of <li>s according to the number of items rated. The <li>s have to be in the right order, e. g. 5 out of 5 has to be the first <li>, 3 out of 5 the third.

Apart from that hTopList would give some orientation on how to mix existing microformats not creating a tag-soup but using always the same convention.


I guess as a microformat it might be usefull also for platforms like last.fm, but it would also be nice for those bloggers addicted to lists, I think of something like a WordPress-PlugIn for TopLists.
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