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On 9/21/06, Stephen Paul Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I definately vote picking one standard and sticking to it. As with
date formats,
Hello Andy,
On 9/21/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
What I'm arguing is that... we should throw an iso4127 class name in
there too so that other currency codes (besides ISO 4127) could be
used too
Hello David,
Just out of curiosity, was this inside or outside of Canada?
On 9/21/06, David Janes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll just jump in here: I've worked in finance, treasury, risk
management and banking for the last 10 years. I've only seen CAD used
technically to refer to Canadian
Hello Scott,
On 9/21/06, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 21, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
Parsers like only having one format to work with. Let people display
what they will, the machine-readable should be consolidated.
I agree. Publishers also like having only
On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
For currencies... We could specify one standard currency -- ISO 4127 3
letter codes -- for now (which would make these people happy). But
also think to the future about if people change out minds (and don't
want to use ISO 4127
Hello Scott,
On 9/22/06, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 22, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
For currencies... We could specify one standard currency -- ISO 4127 3
letter codes -- for now (which would make these people happy). But
also think to the future
For example, with ISO 4127, Canadian Dollars has the code CAD.
However, I have also seen the code CDN used for Canadian Dollars.
I don't believe 'CDN' is from a standard... it's a common misnomer
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On 9/21/06, Stephen Paul Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, with ISO 4127, Canadian Dollars has the code CAD.
However, I have also seen the code CDN used for Canadian Dollars.
I don't believe 'CDN' is from a standard... it's a common misnomer
I agree that no organization
Charles Iliya Krempeaux mumbled the following on 21/09/2006 17:59:
Hello,
On 9/21/06, Stephen Paul Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, with ISO 4127, Canadian Dollars has the code CAD.
However, I have also seen the code CDN used for Canadian Dollars.
I don't believe 'CDN' is from a
Hello,
On 9/21/06, Gazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Iliya Krempeaux mumbled the following on 21/09/2006 17:59:
Hello,
On 9/21/06, Stephen Paul Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, with ISO 4127, Canadian Dollars has the code CAD.
However, I have also seen the code CDN used
Hello Joe,
On 9/21/06, Joe Andrieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
But aren't Microformats about just documenting what people
are already doing. (I.e., the cows path thing.) Instead
of trying to TELL THEM what they should or must be doing.
If that's the case, then
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott
Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I, too, will testify that Tantek's just-the-facts-ma'am writing style
grows on one over time.
I can assure you it won't grow on me; though just the facts would be
an improvement on his recent messages.
--
Andy Mabbett
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[EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles
Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
What I'm arguing is that... we should throw an iso4127 class name in
there too so that other currency codes (besides ISO 4127) could be
used too without (potentially) breaking this or other Semantic HTML
systems (that
On Sep 21, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
Yes, I agree that we should be using ISO 4127 codes. (I guess my
original argumement has gotten lost in the blast of e-mails.)
What I'm arguing is that... we should throw an iso4127 class name in
there too so that other currency
Hello,
On 9/21/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles
Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
What I'm arguing is that... we should throw an iso4127 class name in
there too so that other currency codes (besides ISO 4127) could be
used too without
Hello,
On 9/21/06, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 21, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
Yes, I agree that we should be using ISO 4127 codes. (I guess my
original argumement has gotten lost in the blast of e-mails.)
What I'm arguing is that... we should throw
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles
Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
What I'm arguing is that... we should throw an iso4127 class name in
there too so that other currency codes (besides ISO 4127) could be
used too without (potentially) breaking this or other Semantic HTML
systems
Looks like there are many others:
There are various common abbreviations to distinguish the Canadian
dollar from others: while the ISO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization
currency code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217 *CAD* (a
three-character code
I'll just jump in here: I've worked in finance, treasury, risk
management and banking for the last 10 years. I've only seen CAD used
technically to refer to Canadian dollars and anyone, from a
banking/finance _technical_ perspective, is probably mostly interested
in consuming that form of
A little detail. Shoulnd't it be:
abbr class=currency title=Canadian dollarC$/abbr
?
CAD being itself an abbreviation.
BTW, I think in this context currency as a class name makes sense.
I proposed earlier having a currencyamount class name that would
contain a value (expressed as text or
On 9/21/06 3:34 PM, Guillaume Lebleu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like there are many others:
There are various common abbreviations to distinguish the Canadian
dollar from others: while the ISO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization
currency code
On Sep 21, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
Parsers like only having one format to work with. Let people display
what they will, the machine-readable should be consolidated.
I agree. Publishers also like having only one format to work with.
Peace,
Scott
On Sep 20, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
I have, therefore, put up a straw-man proposal, at:
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-
brainstorming#Straw_man_proposal
Please feel free to critique it, and, in particular, highlight any
examples for which it does not cater.
Nesting
looks very good - nice and simple and functional :)
On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The proposal for a 'currency' microformat, for marking-up amounts of
money, seems moribund. This is unfortunate, as a number of other formats
(hListing, job, hReview, book, etc.), might make
Hello Andy,
I didn't completely follow all of the last currency thread. (Got busy
at work, and lost track of the thread.)
But here's what we are doing...
Something that renders as...
$5.00
Would have the markup...
abbr class=iso4217 #164; title=CAD$/abbr5.00
Also... I add the
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Paul Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
looks very good - nice and simple and functional :)
Thank you.
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Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I didn't completely follow all of the last currency thread. (Got busy
at work, and lost track of the thread.)
I think it meandered somewhat...
But here's what we are doing...
Something that renders as...
$5.00
Hello Andy,
On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles
Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I didn't completely follow all of the last currency thread. (Got busy
at work, and lost track of the thread.)
I think it meandered somewhat...
But
Andy,
I see that you documented some examples on the currency page on the wiki.
Others have mentioned existing currency formats on this thread.
Could you please create the following pages and fill them out?
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-examples
On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
abbr class=currency title=USD
span class=amount42.67/span
/abbr
Isn't this suggesting that 42.67 is an abbreviation for USD?
I've commented before that microformats already misuse abbr in
this
way.
Where is that? I don't remember
Charles Iliya Krempeaux mumbled the following on 20/09/2006 22:38:
abbr class=iso4217 #164; title=CAD$/abbr5.00
So a class name like currency-symbol or currency_symbol would be
better.
I've not been following this thread closely, so apologies if this has
already been dismissed. Andy,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I see that you documented some examples on the currency page on the
wiki.
Others have mentioned existing currency formats on this thread.
Could you please create the following pages and fill them out?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gazza
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I've not been following this thread closely, so apologies if this has
already been dismissed. Andy, or whoever, feel free to add any relevant
parts to the brainstorming page.
Noted, and thank you.
Usually, when talking about currency,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott
Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
abbr class=currency title=USD
span class=amount42.67/span
/abbr
Isn't this suggesting that 42.67 is an abbreviation for USD?
I've commented before that microformats
On 9/20/06 3:51 PM, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see that you documented some examples on the currency page on the
wiki.
Others have mentioned existing currency formats on this thread.
Could you please create the following pages and fill them out?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gazza
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span class=currency
span class=type$/span
span class=value5.00/span
/span
Dollars is a currency. Five Dollars is money.
No, money is a currency, metal is another type of currency. Dollars is
a /type/ of currency.
Even if so,
Hello Andy,
On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I see that you documented some examples on the currency page on the
wiki.
Others have mentioned existing currency formats on this thread.
Could you please create
Hello,
On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gazza
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[...]
I don't think any mention of ISO4217 is needed within the code though;
it could be accepted as the default way of doing it, in the same way
ISO8601 is used for dates,
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Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I don't think any mention of ISO4217 is needed within the code though;
it could be accepted as the default way of doing it, in the same way
ISO8601 is used for dates, and whatever co-ordinate system is used in
geo,
Hello Andy,
On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles
Iliya Krempeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I don't think any mention of ISO4217 is needed within the code though;
it could be accepted as the default way of doing it, in the same way
ISO8601 is
On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
No. You're not in a position to stipulate requirements (much less
required prerequisites (sic)) of me, and your insinuations of
bias are
unfounded.
We all have bias. I'm interested in a currency microformat because I
work on several
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