[uf-dev] Abomination or clever work around? You decide (reference via object)

[John Panzer]

I'm wondering whether the technique in
http://microformats.org/wiki/resume-brainstorming#hCard_reference_via_object 
would help answer one of the issues we've been thinking about at AOL 
when combining reviews with existing structures such as blog entries.

For concreteness, suppose I have an hAtom entry with two reviews in it; 
they share the same "dtreviewed".  In this case it's not possible to 
merge both reviews together and just use class="dtreviewed published". 
More generally, consider a page with an existing "publish date" 
somewhere in a standard location, which contains a collection of reviews 
all published together.

Would the following be abusive/unexpected?  Or given
hCard_reference_via_object, is it a reasonable thing to want to do?

<div class="entry">
<abbr class="published" id="ed"
title="2006-02-22T15:00:00-07:00">Wednesday</abbr>
<h3 class="headline">My day at the office...</h3>
I spent the day struggling with computers... here's my quick take:

<div class="hreview">
<blockquote class="description"><p>
<div class="item fn">Windows XP</div> gets <span
class="rating">2</span>/5 stars for ease of use.
</p></blockquote>
<object data="#ed" class="dtreviewed"></object>
</div>

<div class="hreview">
<blockquote class="description"><p>
<div class="item fn">Windows Server 2003</div> gets <span
class="rating">0</span>/5 stars due to failure to install.
</p></blockquote>
<object data="#ed" class="dtreviewed"></object>
</div>

</div>

(For a real world use case for multiple reviews in a single container, 
look at Jerry Pournelle's product recommendations at the end of any of 
his columns.)

-- 
John Panzer
Sr. Technical Manager
http://journals.aol.com/panzerjohn/abstractioneer