[uf-discuss] Enumerating Microformats on a Page

[Breton Blake Slivka]

Hello, I myself am new to the discussion list, though perhaps I might be 
able to shed *some* light on your question.
 From what I understand, if a page includes microformats, that page 
/should/ link to an xmdp profile for each microformat in the head of the 
document. This allows for autodiscovery, validation, and mechanism for 
defining a microformat.
-Breton

Phil Haack wrote:
> Hello, forgive me if this question comes across as naïve or uninformed as I
> am new to the list, but I have tried to soak in as much information as
> quickly as possible via the wiki and mailing list, but haven't found an
> answer to something I've been thinking about.
>
> I was considering writing a simple Javascript that would iterate elements in
> a page and somehow highlight any and all microformats in use on a page.  The
> trouble is there appears to be no common identifier for microformats that
> would indicate that a snippet of XHTML is a microformat.  I'd have to know
> the format for all possible microformats ahead of time, which of course is
> impossible since the creation of a microformat is distributed, correct?
>
> I can see such a script as being useful as a Bookmarklet to show a user
> which elements of a page are microformats.
>
> My first question, is there some common identifier that I'm just missing?
> Second, is there a philosophical or practical reason not to have some
> identifier?  One reason I can think of is that it may be slightly unwieldy.
>
>   <div class="vcard">...</div>
>
> Might become
>
>   <div class="microformat vcard">...</div>
>
> Or
>
>   <div class="mf vcard">...</div>
>
> Perhaps an auto-discovery mechanism or "table of contents" Microformat might
> be helpful in this case?  I'm still trying to catch up on where the
> auto-discovery discussion is currently situated.  I wrote a post on some
> thoughts here (relevant part starts 3rd para down
> http://haacked.com/archive/2006/03/21/Mix06MicroformatsAutodiscovery.aspx)
> in the hopes that someone would enlighten me a bit ;)  
>
> Thanks for your time!
> Phil
>
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