[uf-dev] Using class for non-human data

[Jake Archibald]

2008/6/23 Michael Kaply <mkaply at us.ibm.com>:

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> But how would you detect this in a parser? Currently we look for a class of
> dtstart. how would you do a getElementsByClassName?
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> I personally don't like the BBC suggestion at all. Hiding data in the class
> tag just seems like a hack. Especially since I have to look at every class
> attribute to decide if it is data for the microformat.
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> I'd almost rather use a non standard attribute.
>

It is a hack, but so is using title. I find using class less hacky because
the data doesn't end up in a human readable space (as title does). "For
general purpose processing by user agents" is what the HTML spec says of the
class attribute.

But yes, the dtstart class should remain, followed by a separate data class.

In implementations and standards, the class attribute has always been for
machine data. This is not true of title.

Jake.
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