Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-22 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/21/06 7:18 PM, Luke Arno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark P. is on the right track here as usual, I think. Yes. What has been glossed over in this convo is that underlying the discomfort that has been expressed on the validation front here is this: Sure you can validate a microformat

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-22 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On 4/22/06, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, DTD, Schema, etc. are insufficient to validate any real world adopted format, whether SGML, XML or something else. That's too strong. If you say DTD and XML Schema are both rather limited WRT to validating XML, fine, but with RELAX NG

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-22 Thread Luke Arno
On 4/22/06, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/21/06 7:18 PM, Luke Arno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark P. is on the right track here as usual, I think. Yes. What has been glossed over in this convo is that underlying the discomfort that has been expressed on the validation

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-21 Thread Benjamin Carlyle
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 23:38 +0100, Nick Swan wrote: I'm working on a tool for discovering and validating microformats. ... I could really do with a flow diagram or something like that of how to parse/validate microformats. ... On 4/20/06, Breton Slivka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: norman

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-21 Thread brian suda
See dev list: http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-dev/2006-April/82.html http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-dev/2006-April/83.html -brian Benjamin Carlyle wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 23:38 +0100, Nick Swan wrote: I'm working on a tool for discovering

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-21 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 4/21/06, Benjamin Carlyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://norman.walsh.name/2006/04/13/validatingMicroformats Microformat validation seems like a hard problem to me, or at least a It's only a hard problem if you insist on using inappropriate technology to solve it. Norm is a smart

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-21 Thread Colin D. Devroe
On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Mark Pilgrim wrote:1) Microformats permit any underlying html structure to be used, so there is nothing to validate there that the w3c validator doesn't already do. Wrong.  See http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-dev/2006-April/83.html I don't see

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-21 Thread Colin D. Devroe
On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Mark Pilgrim wrote:2) Microformats allow arbitrary extension though the use of custom html classes provided by the document author. Unknown classes are still valid, so they can't be declared as errors. 3) The only validation that is possible is to ensure all data that

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-21 Thread Ben Ward
That's excellent Mark. I have a small additional suggestion for 'validator' feedback, that concerning common errors in naming conventions: Such as the use of a 'middle-name' classname when 'additional-names' was intended. Also 'locality', 'region', 'postal-code', 'country-name' can be misentered

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-21 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 4/21/06, Ben Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a small additional suggestion for 'validator' feedback, that concerning common errors in naming conventions: Such as the use of a 'middle-name' classname when 'additional-names' was intended. Also 'locality', 'region', 'postal-code',

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-21 Thread Luke Arno
Mark P. is on the right track here as usual, I think. What has been glossed over in this convo is that underlying the discomfort that has been expressed on the validation front here is this: Sure you can validate a microformat reasonably well (though it may be difficult to validate format

[uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!

2006-04-20 Thread Sam Sethi
Chris Messina recently wrote about how Google's new Calendar missed a trick by not supporting MF's. Google announced today http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/index.html that they are providing a new syndication protocol called Gdata which is based on Atom and RSS syndication specs but it also

Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!

2006-04-20 Thread Chris Messina
Holy hell. This is rediculous. Gdata == the Word document format of web 2.0. Does anyone know *anyone* in Google that will tell us why they're ignoring microformats?? Chris On 4/20/06, Sam Sethi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Messina recently wrote about how Google's new Calendar missed a

RE: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!

2006-04-20 Thread Steven Livingstone
opportunity for Microsoft if you think about it. Steven http://stevenR2.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Messina Sent: 20 April 2006 17:18 To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol! Holy

Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!

2006-04-20 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On 4/20/06, Chris Messina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holy hell. This is rediculous. Gdata == the Word document format of web 2.0. Does anyone know *anyone* in Google that will tell us why they're ignoring microformats?? What value do microformats provide in this context? They hardly seem ideal

Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!

2006-04-20 Thread Christopher St John
On 4/20/06, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 20, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: What value do microformats provide in this context? They hardly seem ideal for the sort of straight data transport that seems to be the focus on the gdata stuff. ... Human-readable data

Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!

2006-04-20 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On 4/20/06, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What value do microformats provide in this context? They hardly seem ideal for the sort of straight data transport that seems to be the focus on the gdata stuff. The same value they provide everywhere else. Human-readable data is easier

RE: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!

2006-04-20 Thread Steven Livingstone
Of Ross Singer Sent: 20 April 2006 19:36 To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol! This seems more to be competition to A9's OpenSearch (which also uses RSS and Atom to support queries). The sad thing is that Microsoft has shown support for OpenSearch

validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-20 Thread Tantek Çelik
Redirecting to microformats-dev... On 4/20/06 12:25 PM, Bruce D'Arcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call me sceptical. Dedicated XML formats (like Atom) that can be validated with standard XML tools Bruce, you're absolutely right about the value of validation. Definitely an area where we have

Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!

2006-04-20 Thread Ross Singer
.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: 20 April 2006 19:36 To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol! This seems more to be competition to A9's OpenSearch (which also

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-20 Thread Breton Slivka
norman walsh recently posted inn his blog about this very issue http://norman.walsh.name/2006/04/13/validatingMicroformats ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org

Re: validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

2006-04-20 Thread Nick Swan
I'm working on a tool for discovering and validating microformats. Hence thequestions I asked earlier today about Chris Messina's hCard! I'm a c# programmer which I know isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea from the open standards community but ho hum! I could really do with a flow diagram or