[microformats-discuss] Shouldn't hCard use <address>?

[Robert Bachmann]

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Bud Gibson wrote:
> Stephen:
> 
> You are right that <div>s and <span>s do not imply any special 
> semantics.  All of that comes in the class (and where relevant rel) 
> attributes for these elements.
> 
> The trick to microformats is that they use standard xhtml markup 
> elements but qualify their meaning
> through the class attribute.  This admittedly can be less powerful  than
> going and defining new markup elements (say through a namespace)  that
> could then have their own special attributes, etc.  However, by 
> avoiding namespaces or even defining whole new vocabularies, 
> microformats remove a lot of barriers to implementation.  Perhaps,  most
> importantly, implementers can use markup they are familiar with.

I think that Stephen wanted to say that something like e.g:

<address class="vcard">
 <a class="url fn" href="http://tantek.com/">
  Tantek Çelik
 </a>
 <div class="org">Technorati</div>
</address>

... is more semantic, than e.g:

<div class="vcard">
 <a class="url fn" href="http://tantek.com/">
  Tantek Çelik
 </a>
 <div class="org">Technorati</div>
</div>

Robert

P.S:
I'm new to this list.
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the non-existing page
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