[uf-discuss] Should microformat features (like rel-tag) have explicit scope?

[Ciaran McNulty]

On 2/1/07, Derrick Lyndon Pallas <derrick at pallas.us> wrote:
> If I have a parser that only knows (and only cares about) the rel-tag
> format, it will be confused by people that use rel-tag for the category
> property in hCard. It seems unreasonable that every microformat should
> have to know about every other microformat, especially when they are nested.

Can I ask what the confusion is?

If I have a hcard with a rel-tag indicating 'football' in that hCard,
then the naive interpretation that 'this page has something on it to
do with football' that your parser will take from it is probably
correct.

-Ciaran McNulty