[microformats-discuss] Re: Educationg Others

[Ryan King]

On Oct 3, 2005, at 2:14 PM, Kevin Lawver wrote:

> I think the original question is a good one, and one that maybe is  
> lacking in examples on the wiki: Are there "successful" examples of  
> machines parsing, and getting something meaningful, out of the  
> existing microformats?
>
> I know that rubhub has parsed XFN, but it's the simplest of the  
> microformats, and probably won't convince a whole lot of people  
> that it's sustainable or performant.  Are there others that we can  
> point to as success stories?
>
> In a quick search around the wiki, I found something about parsing  
> hCard, but no code examples or links to sites doing it (http:// 
> microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing).

http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/ for hcard and hCalendar

And I know that there's others working on indexing these formats, but  
I'll let them speak for themselves.

-ryan