On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Elias Torres wrote:
ryan king wrote:
You're not missing anything. There is no documentation for
"additional
fields in an hCard". There is no extensibility mechanism for
individual
microformats because it's not necessary. If you want to create a new
vocabulary to use along with hCard, just start using it in your
markup.
If it becomes popular enough, you might be able to get it added to
hCard
(if it ever in the future diverges from a 1:1 mapping from vCard).
I guess that's the crux of the matter here. You believe that "it's not
necessary" to extend microformats.
I didn't say that. I said that it's not necessary to provide a
mechanism in individual microformats for them to be extended. We're
working in an open vocabulary, where anyone can use any term, with no
namespaces.
You don't need to extend hCard, you just need to use semantic (x)html.
I believe we do. Ian gives me the
impression that all you need is class/rel/profile to have a fully
extensible and capable HTML and it might be the case with extra text
processing within class values. But I'd rather have a small new set of
attributes specific for this purpose. BTW, we will still use class,
rel
and profile, just need about, property and content/datatype.
As IBM we are not expecting our formats to become "popular", we just
want our customers/products to use validated HTML for their
applications. We shouldn't need to ask microformats to include our
product attributes in their specs everytime we think of a new feature.
I agree. You never need to include your semantic (x)html in community-
developed microformats.
-ryan
