[uf-discuss] Re: Complete n00b: adr microformat

[Tantek Ç elik]

On 11/19/07 4:14 PM, "Brian Suda" <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2007/11/19, Toby A Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk>:
>>         <div class="locality">Surrey Hills, Sydney</div>
>>         <div>
>>           <span class="region"><abbr title="New South
>> Wales">NSW</abbr></span>
>>           <span class="postal-code">2010</span>
>>         </div>
>> 
>> Hopefully the title on the <abbr> should not trigger the abbr-design-
>> pattern, because "NSW" is more appropriate for printing on address
>> labels.
>> 
>> How do existing implementations handle the above example?
> 
> --- implementations SHOULD not trigger the abbr-design-pattern because
> the class="region" is on a span, which doesn't carry the additional
> semantics. Since there is no additional classes on the abbr element,
> the REGION should be just "NSW"

I think it is safe to say MUST instead of SHOULD in the above paragraph,
given that in following hCard parsing, no other interpretation is possible.

 http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing

Thanks,

Tantek