[uf-discuss] locality sans adr;abbr for state/country etc?

[Ryan King]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 1:34 PM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:
> Ryan King wrote:
>> On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:54 AM, B.K. DeLong wrote:
>>> or should I simply make it
>>>
>>> <p class="adr">Unbelievable. Yesterday's high temperature in  
>>> <span class="locality">Salem</span> it was 57 degrees out. </p>
>> But I'd say that his is more semantic, because you're reusing the  
>> semantics of http://microformats.org/wiki/adr.
>
> Why not:
>
> <p>
> Unbelievable. Yesterday's high temperature in
> <span class="adr locality">Salem</span>
> it was 57 degrees out.
> </p>

Because locality is a subproperty of adr. They can't be on the same  
element.

>>> i.e.
>>>
>>> <span class="locality">Any Town</span>, <abbr class="region"  
>>> title="California">CA</abbr>
>> I don't think there's been any discussion of this, but I've seen  
>> examples of people doing precisely this. So, you're not alone here.
>
> If you were to do this (I'm not saying it's a good or bad idea)  
> wouldn't you do it the other way, with the machine readable data  
> inside the title?
>
> <abbr class="region" title="CA">California</a>,
> <abbr class="country" title="US">U.S.A.</abbr>

Indeed, California isn't really an abbreviation for 'CA,' so using it  
that way doesn't really make sense. However, notice in http:// 
microformats.org/wiki/hcard-profile, that there isn't actually a  
country property, but a 'country-name' property, which means that it  
should be more like:

<abbr class="country-name" title="United States of America">U.S.A.</ 
abbr>

-ryan