[uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello Andy,

I didn't completely follow all of the last currency thread.  (Got busy
at work, and lost track of the thread.)

But here's what we are doing...

Something that renders as...

    $5.00

Would have the markup...

    <abbr class="iso4217 &#164;" title="CAD">$</abbr>5.00

Also... I add the following style right in there to...
style="text-decoration:none;border:0;" (to make it look better).  But
I didn't want to add non-essential stuff in the example above, so it's
not in there.

Note that &#164; is the currency symbol -- ¤.  See the following for
more info on that symbol...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_%28typography%29

Also, the ISO 4217 specification specifies those 3 letter currency codes.

I'll provide a link to it once this software upgrade launches.  (It
was suppose to have launched yesterday, but the in-house user testing
is slowing it down.  They keep on finding bugs.)  But it's part of
this site...
http://marketplace.bell.ca/


See ya

On 9/20/06, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The proposal for a 'currency'  microformat, for marking-up amounts of
> money, seems moribund. This is unfortunate, as a number of other formats
> (hListing, job, hReview, book, etc.), might make use of it.
>
> I have, therefore, put up a "straw-man" proposal, at:
>
>   <http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Straw_man_proposal
> >
>
> Please feel free to critique it, and, in particular, highlight any
> examples for which it does not cater.
> --
> Andy Mabbett
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>


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    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

    charles @ reptile.ca
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