[uf-discuss] Confused about telephone numbers in hCard

[Rickards, Julian (NDM)]

Hi:

I am still having a bit of trouble with telephone numbers in hCard
microformat. The instructions I have read seem to suggest that all I
need is to identify that a phone-number is within a class="tel", that
the type must be identified (such as work) and that the value should be
identified.  The rest of my hCard markup (class="adr") worked fine but
the phone numbers proved to be very challenging.

What I am doing is trying to make my markup work in Outlook 2003 by
exporting from Tails Export. 

I started with:

<div class="tel"><abbr class="type" title="work">Toll-free Phone:</abbr>
<span class="value">1-800-670-5861</span></div>

but the phone entry in Outlook is empty. So I changed the <abbr> to
<span> as follows:

<div class="tel"><span class="work">Toll-free Phone:</span> <span
class="value">1-800-670-5861</span></div>

but now the entry in Outlook appears but it appears as "Toll-free Phone:
1-800-670-5861". However, I don't want "Toll-free Phone: " in the phone
number field.

So I changed the code to:

<div>Toll-free Phone: <span class="tel"><span
class="work">1-800-670-5861</span></span></div>

and now it works properly but HTML Tidy gives me a warning about nested
spans. So I changed it once again to combine the classes to:

<div>Toll-free Phone: <span class="tel work">1-800-670-5861</span></div>

but this results in an empty field in Outlook.

Why is this so hard to do?
 
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Julian Rickards
Geoscience Data Conversion Technician
Provincial Recording Office,
Willet Green Miller Building, Level B3,
933 Ramsey Lake Road,
Sudbury, ON  P3E 6B5
E-mail: julian.rickards at ontario.ca
Phone: (705) 670-5861, Fax: (705) 670-5881