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

Joe Andrieu joe at andrieu.net
Tue Dec 12 11:38:29 PST 2006


brian suda wrote
> It is possible for me to start creating a CSS style called 
> 'vcard', but a parser would know that this is a style and not 
> semantics because of the lack of a profile URI. Eventually, 
> as microformats become more popular,  the profile URI is used 
> to disambiguate random styles with intended semantic values.

Brian,

As I understand it profile URIs are not required.

If so, the parser cannot distinguish between wild semantic HTML and an
hCard.

Or did I miss a change somehwere?

-j

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