[microformats-discuss] Weblog entries and forum posts

[David Janes -- BlogMatrix]

Hi Ryan,

That's exactly what I thought would be the correct approach also. I've 
attached my (barebones) original proposal at the end of this message.

Regards, etc...
David
http://www.blogmatrix.com

Ryan King wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> 
>> Hey David and Geof,
>>
>> This same idea came up in #microformats the other day, with no less
>> than three people having independently invented it.  Given that you
>> guys are two more, this is about as unambiguous as a zeitgeist can
>> get: it's a great idea.
> 
> 
> I would be one of those 'independent inventors'. :D
> 
> Basically, what I want is a microformat for blogs. I think there's  
> enough similarity among blog markup to warrant trying to develop a  format.
> 
> And, I think this should be our next step...
> 
> Redo your own blog as an experiment- analyze typical blog formats and  
> try to apply whatever format seems most semantic.
> 
> For myself, as an experiment, I'm going to try and map atom 1.0 into  my 
> blog markup.
> 
> -ryan



The format itself would be quite simple. I've just used Atom 
(http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/) as a reasonable 
definition for what should be in this microcontent spec, and worked from 
there. Here's the basic elements:

xentry
    id [... we've decided this is probably not ideal ...]
    author
    published
    title
    content
    Notes: "xentry" could become "aentry" to more suggest Atom, but I 
like the way this reminisent of xFolk 
(http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk). There's an example of the markup 
after my signature below.

Your thoughts? If people think this is a good idea, I can start fleshing 
this out more. There a little conflict or overlap with the reblg people, 
but I think that can be worked out.

Regards, etc...
David Janes
Founder, BlogMatrix
http://www.blogmatrix.com

-------------------------------------

- Original weblog article:

  <div class="post">
    <h3 class="storytitle" id="post-2960">
      <a href="http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/08/03/httptracer/" 
rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: HTTPTracer">HTTPTracer</a>
    </h3>

    <div class="storycontent">
      <p>bla bla bla</p>
    </div>
    <div class="metabits">
      <div class="keywords">
        <a 
href="http://dannyayers.com/misc/about/biog.htm">Danny</a>@13:45 |
        <a href="http://dannyayers.com/..." title="View ..." 
rel="category tag">Programming</a>
       </div>
     </div>

    <div class="feedback">
      <a 
href="http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/08/03/httptracer/#comments">Comments 
(0)</a>
    </div>
  </div>

- With xEntry markup (I've made all the xEntry markup uppercase for 
_visibility purposes only_; note the optional use of <abbr> to provide 
deeper data):

  <div class="XENTRY post">
    <h3 class="storytitle" id="post-2960">
      <a href="http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/08/03/httptracer/" 
class="TITLE ID" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: 
HTTPTracer">HTTPTracer</a>
    </h3>

    <div class="CONTENT storycontent">
      <p>bla bla bla</p>
    </div>
    <div class="metabits">
      <div class="keywords">
        <a href="http://dannyayers.com/misc/about/biog.htm"><abbr 
class="AUTHOR" title="Danny Ayers">Danny</abbr></a>@<abbr 
class="PUBLISHED" title="2005-08-03T11:45:02Z">13:45</abbr> |
        <a href="http://dannyayers.com/..." title="View ..." 
rel="category tag">Programming</a>
       </div>
     </div>

    <div class="feedback">
      <a 
href="http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/08/03/httptracer/#comments">Comments 
(0)</a>
    </div>
  </div>



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