[uf-discuss] using microschema

[Tatsuya Noyori]

Hello,

I would like to suggest microschema to improve interoperability of microformats.

An example of microformats hcard is as follows:

<span class="tel">
 <link rel="microschema" href="http://microformats.org/2007/hcard.rng" />
 <span class="type">home</span>
 <span class="value">+1.415.555.1212</span>
</span>

The example is added "<link rel="microschema"
href="http://microformats.org/2007/hcard.rng" />" to original hcard to
declare using microschema.

A microschema for the example above is as follows:

<grammar xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"
        datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">

<start>
 <ref name="microformats.hcard"/>
</start>

 <define name="microformats.hcard">
   <element name="span">
     <attribute name="class">
       <value>tel</value>
     </attribute>
     <ref name="microschema.hcard"/>
     <element name="span">
       <attribute name="class">
         <value>type</value>
       </attribute>
       <choice>
         <value>pref</value>
         <value>work</value>
         <value>home</value>
         <value>voice</value>
         <value>fax</value>
         <value>msg</value>
         <value>cell</value>
         <value>pager</value>
         <value>bbs</value>
         <value>modem</value>
         <value>car</value>
         <value>isdn</value>
         <value>video</value>
       </choice>
     </element>
     <element name="span">
       <attribute name="class">
         <value>value</value>
       </attribute>
       <data type="string">
         <param name="pattern">(\+|\-|\.|[0-9]+)+</param>
       </data>
     </element>
   </element>
 </define>

 <define name="microschema.hcard">
   <element name="link">
     <attribute name="rel">
       <value>microschema</value>
     </attribute>
     <attribute name="href">
       <value>http://microformats.org/2007/hcard.rng</value>
     </attribute>
     <empty/>
   </element>
 </define>

</grammar>

Anybody can confirm the validation of the example above by using Jing.

I think microschema can improve the interoperability of microformats.
How do you think about my suggestion?

Best regards,

-- 
Tatsuya Noyori (^o^)/