[microformats-discuss] Discovery of microformats

[Ryan King]

On Jul 12, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Ryan King wrote:

> On Jul 12, 2005, at 11:41 AM, Joshua Porter wrote:
>
>
>> In trying to understand why I should, as a developer, produce  
>> microformat code, I realized that I don't know how to find out  
>> which sites use microformats and which don't.  (Tantek's pointer  
>> on microformats.org the other day reminded me of this)
>>
>> How would I (or my browsing/aggregating software) discover that a  
>> site is using microformats?

Actually, before getting into that, I should have asked: "What do you  
mean by 'auto-discovery'?" In other words, give us a particular use- 
case.

-ryan

>
> A couple of ways:
>
> 1. You could tell it that there are microformats there. :)
> 2. The UA could parse the page, looking for microformats that it  
> knows about.
> 3. Profile URL- microformats can have a profile url, which is in  
> the profile attribute of the head element.
>
> spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.4
> example:http://gmpg.org/xmdp/description
>
> -ryan