[uf-discuss] Ordered Lists

[Stephen Paul Weber]

XOXO is definately the way to go.  In fact, you suggestion of parseing
'OL XHTML' is exactly what XOXO is!  If you use <ol> for the XOXO list
(instead of <ul>), then order definately has semantic meaning, most
parsers return elements in order either way.  No fear of polluting the
XOXO 'world' -- XOXO being the most general microformats spec it can
be used for anything.  While it is a rival to OPML, it is also the
'super-microformat' and will work for almost any application,
especially simple lists.  Any <ol> or <ul> tag in XHTML is
automatically XOXO according to the rules of the format anyway :)
   -- Singpolyma


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> On 8/29/06, Paul Kinlan <paul.kinlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Hi Kevin,
> >
> > Thats a pretty cool answer.  I was looking into xoxo, it looked like
> > what I might use opml for.  But I wasn't too sure if I were to use
> > xoxo in the manner that I intend then it might polute the xoxo
> > "world".
> >
> > I thought about using hReview, but it seems like an overkill to me
> > right now, because I am thinking that perhaps the OL signifies the
> > significance of each element implicity, at least that is what I think
> > at the moment.  I will look into VoteLink too.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Paul Kinlan
> >
> > On 29/08/06, Kevin Marks <kmarks at technorati.com> wrote:
> > > Paul, XOXO is a way to represent (nested) lists using <ol> and <dl>
> > > that maps well into programming languages - worth a look for what we
> > > have already done:
> > >
> > > http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo
> > > On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yeah,  I would like to be able to understand what the list is "about",
> > > > so something like a title would give a good descriptive meaning to
> > > > what the items in the list relate to.
> > > >
> > > > For instance the title could be "Favorite Films", obviously the LI's
> > > > would then be order of the favorites.
> > > >
> > > > Title was one of the only attributes that I thought could be used to
> > > > determine what the list is about.  I was also initially thinking about
> > > > putting a class attribute saying something like "positive" or
> > > > "negative" for the ordering of the elements in the list.
> > >
> > > This sounds like it may map to hReview's ratings or vote-links, if you
> > > are storing an attribute for each item.
> > >
> > > > It is just that I would like to be able to write a progam that can
> > > > parse lists of information that has a meaning so that I can merge more
> > > > than one list together.
> > > >
> > > > Obviously OL, LI inferes a kind of semantic meaning, and I could
> > > > already use the OL's without getting everyone to adopt a new format
> > > > such as rel=tag etc.
> > > >
> > > > I am just looking into ideas and trying to see if people already do
> > > > this kind of thing.
> > >
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