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

[Andy Mabbett]

In message
<21e523c20612090755i15e0bdedi6f921e3200da00d2 at mail.gmail.com>, David
Janes <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> writes

>> >- 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.

Consider:

        <p>John Doe said: <q>My new address will be 1, High Street,
        Anytown</q></p>

>> >- "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"

And for existing uFs?

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