[uf-discuss] Citation format straw proposal on the wiki

Wed Mar 29 11:32:55 PST 2006

OK, so a minimal microformat for a citation could look like this:

<x class="citation [type]">
	<x class="title">Item title</x>
	<x class="creators"><hcards></x>
	<x class="container citation [type]"><hcitation for the container></x>
	<x class="pages">n-n</x> [and anything else specific to this  
particular type of citation]
</x>

I think that's essentially very similar to Mike's version too.

alf.

On 29 Mar 2006, at 14:20, Breton Slivka wrote:

> True, but a mechanism for this sort of thing already exists for  
> microformats in XMDP, and in a somewhat more flexiible form, in  
> that one does not need a monolithic profile for all the modules  
> involved, one can have a seperate profile for each module and link  
> to each seperately.
>
> The basic thrust of this is to follow the microformat principal of  
> solving the simple problem first. Out of all these specific domains  
> exists a definite "simplest problem". The only dispute that I see  
> is that the simplest problem doesn't solve all the domain specific  
> problems. You wouldn't expect it to! So you make additional  
> microformats to solve the domain specific issues. Thus the "micro"  
> in microformats, as I understand it.
>
> On Mar 29, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Alf Eaton wrote:
>
>> On 29 Mar 2006, at 14:02, Breton Slivka wrote:
>>
>>> If we are for the moment to entertain the idea of modularization,  
>>> couldn't type then be simply inferred by which module(s) in use?  
>>> If you go with a nesting microformat model for that, type is  
>>> encapsulated entirely in the container class of specific modules,  
>>> and the modules which are in use determine behavior, much the  
>>> same as embedded svg/mathml does today, or a more direct  
>>> comparison in the modularization of xhtml.
>>
>> If you embed MathML and SVG in XHTML you still have to use the  
>> right DOCTYPE, so that the validator knows which modules are  
>> allowed (though admittedly you don't necessarily need the precise  
>> DOCTYPE just for displaying/interpreting the document):
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
>>     "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN"
>>     "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg.dtd">
>>
>> alf.
>>
>>
>>
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