[microformats-discuss] funness -> validator

Tue Aug 16 17:00:25 PDT 2005

I'm not sure what the deal with that site is, (i suspect something with
mod_rewrite) because if you use this URL: (http://zooibaai.nl/about/)
with the trailing '/' it works just fine. The same problem occurs with
the hCard and is unique to that site!

-brian

Jeff Lindsay wrote:

>I couldn't get it to show any results for this page:
>http://zooibaai.nl/about which I grabbed from the microformat wiki. I
>know there's XFN on there, but your validator says otherwise. :P
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>On 8/16/05, brian suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Lucas Gonze wrote:
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>>>On 8/16/05, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
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>>>>On 8/16/05 11:59 AM, "Dr. Ernie Prabhakar" <drernie at opendarwin.org> wrote:
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>>>>>On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Lucas Gonze wrote:
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>>>>>>One thing I'm finding as I go along is that a validator would be
>>>>>>intensely useful, because you can (and have to) get pretty creative,
>>>>>>and it's hard to be sure that the results are still parseable.
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>>>>>That's something I wondered about.  Is there a rigorous grammar for
>>>>>what is and is not a valid microformat, such that someone -could-
>>>>>write a validator?
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>>>>The short answer is no, we are still figuring it out.
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>>There was a discussion about some of the pros and cons previously on
>>this list
>>http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-July/000328.html
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>>The previous list posts go into more detail, but there are several
>>things that XMDP cannot do (yet). There is always and on going
>>discussion about this topic with new ideas poping-up every once and
>>awhile. I won't bore anyone unless they want an indepth description of
>>the current state of the XMDP validator and all the
>>issue that have slowed development.
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>>A universal validator would be a golden egg. Once written it could look
>>parse any XMDP and validate against it without any prior knowledge of
>>the format. Currently, that is impossible, each microformat has some
>>sort of data that is unique in some fashion (which is NOT a bad thing,
>>but it makes validation more difficult).
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>>This is the link to a BETA validator, the input/output is pretty ugly,
>>but the idea is that you enter a URL and it will be fetched, the <head
>>profile=""> parsed. Those URLs are fetched, the XMDPs are passed through
>>an XSLT and another dynamic-XSLT is created. Then the new Dynamic-XSLT
>>(which encompasses all the profiles you are using) is processed against
>>your page and the validation output is displayed.
>>http://suda.co.uk/projects/XMDP/
>>Currently, it only uses XFN and no-follow (partly because those
>>microformats are very flat, no nested elements)
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>>Feedback is eggargly awaited.
>>-brian
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