[uf-discuss] Microformat for news indexes?

[Kevin Marks]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Ryan King wrote:
>>
>> Would hAtom be appropriate for this type of use? Or is it a case that
>> could more usefully be handled with its own specialized microformat?
>> (hAtom has most of what's required, but not source - i.e. "New York 
>> Times"
>> - or image).
>
> The way to answer the question "is hAtom enough?" is to try using it 
> and see where if falls short. The only thing I see in your list above 
> that isn't in hAtom is 'image,' which could easily just be in the 
> content of an post.

Also look at the [thing]-info work going on around describing 
individual works such as photos, blog posts, songs and the like.

http://microformats.org/wiki/media-info-examples