[uf-discuss] Question about telephone numbers

[Ryan King]

On Jun 25, 2007, at 5:10 AM, Rickards, Julian (NDM) wrote:

> The current format forces us to include "voice" or "fax" in text  
> rather
> than in the attributes. In my original case, I didn't want to include
> the word "voice" in the text because in the contacts page I was/am
> creating, all of the numbers were voice numbers (all of the people in
> the contacts page share a single fax number so I didn't need to  
> specify
> a fax number for each and use "fax" and "voice" to distinguish them  
> for
> each person).

"voice" is a default type. You can leave it out.

> The other problem I will encounter is the fact that because my efforts
> are on our government web pages (in Ontario, Canada, all government
> pages must be in both English and French), I must use the French
> equivalent to "voice" and "fax" in the text which means that the
> microformat will be broken. However, if "voice" and "fax" were  
> accepted
> as attribute values, then I don't need to worry about the text in the
> page because the attribute value would be used instead of the text.

You can put the type values in the title attribute of abbr elements  
in this case.

-ryan