[uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

[David Janes]

>
> >- never look for attributes inside BLOCKQUOTE or Q
>
> Why not?

Because their definitions in the HTML spec [1] say that these are for
pulling in data from elsewhere. From this one concludes that it's
likely that this data is not necessarily going to be marked up in a
way consistent with the current page.

>
> >- "unless explicitly defined to be otherwise"
>
> How would that be done?

When writing a new microformat, one says "we look inside X Y and Z for
A B and C"

Regards, etc...

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-BLOCKQUOTE