[uf-discuss] Plazes & Microformats

[Scott Reynen]

On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Ryan King wrote:

> That's right. The reason you can't collapse a 'vcard' class name  
> and its 'fn' class name is that it makes putting a 'vcard' class  
> name inside another one becomes ambiguous.

I've seen this explanation a few times, and I've never personally  
found the separation of vcard and fn to be a problem, but I don't  
understand the explanation.   Couldn't the spec prevent such  
ambiguity simply by stating that vcard and fn in the same node should  
be treated by parsers as an fn node within the vcard node.  More  
generally, why doesn't nearest-in-parent [1] start with the current  
node rather than the parent node?

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/algorithm-nearest-in-parent

Peace,
Scott