[uf-discuss] Dated currency examples?

[Guillaume Lebleu]

A correction to one of my code samples:

<span class="price"><span class="currencyamount"><abbr 
class="unitcurrency" title="USD">$</abbr>25</span> a <abbr class="unit" 
title="barrel>barrel</abbr></span>.

Guillaume

Guillaume Lebleu wrote:
> Sorry if I'm only getting up-to-speed on this debate.
>
> I agree that attaching explicitly date/time information directly to a 
> currency value is relatively rare, and when necessary that it is 
> usually inferred from the context.
>
> For instance, we talk of the date of the price of a barrel of oil, in 
> which case the date/time is attached to the "price" component of a 
> "product", the "currency value" being only one expression of the 
> "price". See Andy's example: 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1096916.stm
>
> On the other hand, I think attaching date/time information to 
> *currency rates* is very common (See Andy's example: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_in_Germany#Inflation_and_Repercussions). 
>
>
> Moreover, even though a currency rate is the "price" of a "product", 
> it is particular enough that it deserves its own class.
>
> Taking one of Andy's examples that deals with currency rates, and 
> reusing both the abbr/date pattern used in hCalendar and some he 
> IFX/OFX semantics, I think we could get away with:
>
> <span class="currencyrate">On <abbr class="datetime" 
> title="1998-03-12T08:30:00-05:00">August 1</abbr>, the <abbr 
> class="currency" title="USD">US Dollar</abbr> still stood at <span 
> class="currencyamount">643 <abbr class="unitcurrency" 
> title="DEM">Marks</abbr></span> to the Dollar.</span>
>
> i.e.:
>
>    * currencyrate
>          o currency
>          o currencyamount
>                + unitcurrency
>
>
> Another attempt with the oil barrel example:
>
> <span class="price"><span class="currencyamount"><abbr 
> class="unitcurrency" title="USD">$</abbr>25</span> a <abbr 
> class="unit" title="barrel>barrel</barrel></span>.
>
> i.e.:
>
>    * price
>          o currencyamount
>                + unitcurrency
>          o unit
>
>
> Of course, this is just brainstorming, as I am just getting started 
> with microformats.
>
>
> Guillaume
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> Scott Reynen wrote:
>> In the currency-brainstorming [1] page, I see a few straw man 
>> proposals with dated currency.  But I don't see anything in 
>> currency-examples [2] with dated currency.  I think I understand the 
>> general idea, that currencies change value over time, but in what 
>> currently published HTML would such date markup be used?  I'm sure 
>> there are examples of dated currency published on the web, but I 
>> suspect they are far under 20% of the currency values published.  I'm 
>> interested in seeing this microformat completed and adopted and I'd 
>> hate to see unnecessary complexity prevent that from happening.
>>
>> [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming
>> [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-examples
>>
>> Peace,
>> Scott
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