[uf-discuss] permalinks for microformat chunks of pages: use the 'id' attribute on root microformat elements

[brian suda]

At first look i really like this idea, but then i though about it for a
minute....

You are adding 'brighton' into the class attribute, which violates the
human readable aspect of Microformats. This would be better...

<div class="vcard">
    <span class="fn">Jeremy Keith</span>  in
    <span class="group">Brighton</span>
</div>

in hCard there already is a property for grouping, class="category" so
you could use

<div class="vcard">
    <span class="fn">Jeremy Keith</span>  in
    <span class="category">Brighton</span>
</div>

or even
    <a class="category" rel="tag"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton">Brighton</a>

Then you could begin to make a distributed web-sized group.

It is slightly more difficult for a parser to find a class="category",
then look up the tree and see if it is a child of class="vcard" rather
than putting them both on the root-element.

The other downside to adding semantics outside of the scope of hCard, is
that it is impossible to determine if it is a CSS style or a semantic
attribute.

<div class="vcard brighton call-out-box">...</div>

is "call-out-box" also a group or a style?

I would recommend looking into using the category property for groups.

-brian

Drew McLellan wrote:
> I'm slightly wary of any pattern that prescribes doing anything
> outside the root element of a given µF. context.
>
> One proposal would be to introduce a very simple pattern for groups of
> hCards - just like groups in address book programs (friends, family,
> collegues etc). In XHTML we already have a mechanism of grouping
> elements - the class attribute. So how about treating hCards that
> share a common class name other than 'vcard' as a loose group?
>
> <div class="vcard brighton">
>     <div class="fn">Jeremy Keith</div>
> </div>
>
> <div class="vcard brighton">
>     <div class="fn">Andy Budd</div>
> </div>
>
> <div class="vcard">
>     <div class="fn">Drew McLellan</div>
> </div>
>
> Granted, there's danger of the concept duplicating problems already
> solved by either XFN, or by intrinsic groupings already created by the
> values within the hCards themselves. Most groupings I imagine are
> based on location, companies, or XFN properties like friends,
> collegues, family. I think we'd also need to see more real-world
> examples to demonstrate a need for something like this.
>
> I guess two examples would be your d.Construct Locations page, where
> groups are travel, accomadation, freewifi, etc, and the LPG site I did
> the other week where all my hCards were gas stations, and would be
> sensible to group as such. It gets more complex with the d.Construct
> case, though, where you'd actually want to group everything overall
> into one 'dconstruct' group too. e.g.
>
> <div class="vcard travel dconstruct">
>     <div class="fn org">Brighton Train Station</div>
> </div>
>
> The above would belong to the travel group and the dconstruct group.
> I'm not sure how a parser would know how those should be nested,
> however. (Does each of travel, accomodation, freewifi contain a
> dconstruct group, or does the dconstruct group contain the others?).
> So you'd need rules about group name exclusivity .. and all in all I
> think I've talked myself out of the idea ;)
>
>
> drew.
>
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