[uf-discuss] Signalling use of microformats?

[brian suda]

The HTML HEAD Profile attribute alerts applications to the potential
presence of microformats.[1,2]

-brian

[1] - http://www.gmpg.org/xmdp/
[2] -
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4.3

Angus McIntyre wrote:
>
> Is there a way to indicate - for the benefit of robots, for example -
> that a given web page contains markup that conforms to one or more
> microformats? I'm imagining something along the lines of:
>
>     <meta name="microformats" content="tag hAtom xFolk" />
>
> Obviously, a robot would be free to scan any page to see if it
> contained content in a format it's interested in, but a 'hint' of this
> kind might allow the robot to prioritise processing of pages that the
> author claims contain information in a specific format.
>
> Useful? Or superfluous?
>
> Angus
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