"uid" microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On 4/26/06, Joe Andrieu <joe at andrieu.net> wrote:

[..snip...]

> By my interpretation that has both a format UID and a locator URI for
> that format.  Shouldn't there be a similar disambiguation for the
> microformat class one is using?
>
> This seems related to namespaces and I know only that they caused some
> challenges with RDF...
>
> Does it make sense for a microformat to actually label itself as such,
> including a UID and a URI?
>
> <div class="microformat" uid="hCoupon"
> href="http://www.joeandrieu.com/hCoupon">

I think you ask some good questions!

See RDF/A for one answer:

    <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/>

Likewise, Ian Davis has done some work with RDF embedded in XHTML
(basically a mf). Both involve declaring vocabularies in xhtml:head,
and then using prefixes in the class (and other) attributes.

Bruce