Depends on what you want to achieve. You can use the microformats hReview to provide product reviews, but i dont think there is anything specific for listing products.
You could use XML, but only if you had real reason to, if your using XML for the sole purpose to add semantic meaning to your products i wouldn't bother with it. You can add just as much semantic meaning using Classes. Example: <div class="bookshelf"> <p class="title">Harry Potter</p> <p class="author">Some Author (I really dont know :P)</p> </div> You get the picture, the mark-up there is probably not the best, but its for demo a purpose. If you are going to create a centralized service based around your e-commerce site and plan to create your own software, widgets, toolbars and stuff then XML might be a better option, but before you use XML you would need a reason to in the first place. Hope that helps, if anything is unclear feel free to ask again. Its to early for me, my eyes are not fully awake at this moment. On 8/7/07, Elle Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Just wanted to ask when you build an e-commerce site, do you markup > the products in any additional markup to give them more meaning? and > by that I mean microformats or XBL or just XML? > > Thanks, > Elle > > http://designbyelle.com.au > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
