[microformats-discuss] hCard Help

[Ryan King]

On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:01 PM, brian suda wrote:

> Thanks Greg, that was actually a problem with X2V. It was NOT
> normalizing the space in the text string... In your code there were no
> returns, but somewhere they were being introduced. I added an XSLT
> function to clean up the string (it is on all the other templates, i
> just managed to miss ORG), so it is working just fine now. You  
> shouldn't
> have to do anything to your HTML.
>
> If anyone else finds problems please feel free to let me know.
>
> With the hCard parsing page being finished-up there are a few sizable
> changes to the hCard spec, namely singularization of some  
> properties.[1]
>
> The next version of X2V will parse things even better and conform  
> to the
> parsing spec, so be aware you might have to make minor changes to your
> hCards.
>
> For all developers and people who use hCards in their sites, please  
> add
> them to the Wiki[2] and when we make any changes i will try to test
> against your hCards and let you know if there are any problems, but i
> can't do that unless you list your sites.

You can additionally add them here:http://microformats.org/wiki/ 
selected-test-cases-from-the-web

-ryan

> thanks,
> -brian
>
> [1] - http://www.microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing
> [2] - http://www.microformats.org/wiki/hcard#More_Examples
>
> Greg Falken wrote:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a situation that I don't understand (not an unusual state  
>> of affairs)
>> and could use some advice.
>>
>> I have added an hCard to the page at http://207.212.194.15/ 
>> contact.aspx and
>> am using Suda's X2V link to render it. The problem is with the  
>> organization
>> name, Emerson & Associates. The returned .xcf file looks like this:
>>
>> BEGIN:VCARD
>> PRODID:-//suda.co.uk//X2V 0.6.18 (BETA)//EN
>> SOURCE:http://207.212.194.15/contact.aspx
>> NAME: Contact Emerson & Associates
>> VERSION:3.0
>> N:Emerson;Linda;;;;
>> FN:Linda Emerson
>> EMAIL:info at emerson4biz.com
>> ORG:Emerson &
>> Associates
>> ADR:;;P.O. Box 44;Twain Harte;CA;95383;;
>> TEL:(209) 586-4464
>> URL:http://www.emerson4biz.com
>> END:VCARD
>>
>> See the line break after the ampersand? This is causing the  
>> organization
>> name to truncate when imported into MS Outlook. Any ideas on how  
>> this can be
>> prevented?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Greg Falken
>>
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