Re: [uf-discuss] uF dumped in tag soup?

2007-06-20 Thread Ryan King
On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Dougal Campbell wrote: Okay, so I started a new job recently. The web site and service has a lot to do with SEO. But despite that, the HTML is a mess of table-based layout and tag soup. I'm hoping I can change that in time, but it won't happen quickly. But one

Re: [uf-discuss] uF dumped in tag soup?

2007-06-18 Thread David Thompson
Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: i agree, but you should be aware that microformats are only specified to work in xhtml pages (so e.g. it needs parse as xml), not in html pages Is this actually the case? The wiki seems to be a little ambiguous on the topic, sometimes referring to “open microformat

Re: [uf-discuss] uF dumped in tag soup?

2007-06-18 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On 6/18/07, David Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Granted, the behaviour can't be guaranteed in the case of a non-compliant document, but are Microformats actually specified as working in valid, but non-XML-compliant, HTML markup? Surely the only requirement should be that the markup can be

RE: [uf-discuss] uF dumped in tag soup?

2007-06-18 Thread Joe Andrieu
David Thompson wrote: Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 3:26 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] uF dumped in tag soup? Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: i agree, but you should be aware that microformats are only specified to work in xhtml pages (so e.g. it needs parse as xml

Re: [uf-discuss] uF dumped in tag soup?

2007-06-18 Thread David Thompson
Joe Andrieu wrote: I believe that the problem is that more than a few of the parsers use XSLT operating on the file itself, rather than a DOM. Relying on a browser to parse the (X)HTML into a DOM is convenient, but it is also expensive architecturally, especially when doing server-side

RE: [uf-discuss] uF dumped in tag soup?

2007-06-18 Thread Joe Andrieu
David Thompson Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 6:41 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] uF dumped in tag soup? Joe Andrieu wrote: I believe that the problem is that more than a few of the parsers use XSLT operating on the file itself, rather than a DOM. Relying