[uf-discuss] Plazes & Microformats

[David Janes -- BlogMatrix]

Scott Reynen wrote:
> 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

This is great place to continue this debate. The issue (as I understand 
it) is that this optimization doesn't allow nested vcards:

<span class="vcard fn">[SPAM-DATA]</span>

The reason, as I see it, is that because you've asserted "fn", 
[SPAN-DATA] can pretty well only be a FN because otherwise you're 
asserting something that isn't true logically.

Thus, in terms of this particular optimization, there is no particular 
need for worrying about nested vcards since it can't happen from a 
logical point of view.

Regards, etc...
David