[uf-discuss] hCode microformat proposal

[Jonathan C Williams]

On Jan 24, 2007, at 10:30 PM, anders conbere wrote:

> All over the web there are code snippets and code examples, and just
> plain people showing of little programs they've written.  This data is
> typical acompanied by an author or list of authors, a lisence, the
> language type and version and various other bits of meta data.  This
> seems to me to be an excelent place for microformats.

It seems like this would be an interesting place to suggest an  
(optional) extension of this proposal to create a standard for class  
based syntax highlighting. It may too ambitious but marking up stuff  
inside <code> with class names corresponding to what is is (variable,  
function, array indirection, operator, etc) could lead the way  
towards making things that could, for example, find all `php` code  
with calls to the `function` named `ldap_connect`.

Also, we should keep in mind that <code> isn't always procedural  
programming code can be examples of CSS, XML, HTML, YAML, TeX, etc.  
Would we want to consider methods of categorizing code in a rich  
taxonomy -- distinguishing between `markup`, `functional`  
`procedural`, `object-oriented` <code> above the level of language?  
I'm guessing this approach is not a good idea.

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Jonathan Williams
NYU Steinhardt
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