[uf-discuss] hcard noobie question

[Ryan King]

On Apr 5, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Nick Swan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> noobie hcard question here! Sorry!!!
>
> So I have my hcard I have created :
>
> <div class="vcard">
>  <a class="url fn" href="http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick">Nick Swan</a>
>  <div class="org">Dot Net Solutions</div>
>  <div class="adr">
>   <div class="street-address">Sheet Street</div>
>   <span class="locality">Windsor</span>,
>   <span class="region">Berks</span>
>   <span class="postal-code">SL4</span>
>  </div>
>  <div class="tel">07866 567042</div>
> </div>
>
> and I want to paste it into Ray Ozzies Live Clipboard demo.
>
> I can't though because the demo splits names up completely  
> differently ie:
> <div class="n">
>   <span class="given-name">Nick</span>
>   <span class="family-name">Swan</span>
> </div>
>
> For me to consume hcards this is ok as I can parse them many  
> different ways to see which one works, but how am I supposed to  
> know which format to copy the data in to be able to paste it  
> somewhere else?
>
> I though the idea of hcard was to come up with a standard format?

It is, don't worry. :D

What you're encountering here is the implied-n-optimization [http:// 
microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Implied_.22n.22_Optimization]. In the  
First example, you're using the optimization to express n (the  
structured name). In the last example, the structure of n is  
expressed explicitly.

Either method should work with a proper hcard parser.

/me goes back to writing hcard test cases. :D

-ryan
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