[uf-discuss] Signalling use of microformats?

[Tantek Ç elik]

Brian, could you add this to the FAQ?

 http://microformats.org/wiki/faq

Thanks,

Tantek

On 2/9/06 7:06 AM, "brian suda" <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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