[uf-discuss] Standardized Representation of Microformats in JSON / was: (no subject) & hCardMapper v0.96

[Gordon]

Toby A Inkster schrieb:
> Gordon wrote:
>
>> I second Andy Mabbet's concern about allowing multiple instances for
>> fields like e.g. country not making sense.
>
> RFC 2426 says, 'Where it makes semantic sense, individual text 
> components can include multiple text values (e.g., a "street" 
> component with multiple lines) separated by the COMMA character (ASCII 
> decimal 44).' It doesn't specify which fields it makes sense for, and 
> which it does not — that is left to the judgement of the vCard 
> producers and consumers.
>
> Here's an example with multiple countries, which makes sense:
>
>     <div class="adr">
>         <span class="extended-address">The Scottish Parliament</span>, 
> <br>
>         <span class="locality">Edinburgh</span>, <br>
>         <span class="postal-code">EH99 1SP</span>, <br>
>         <span class="country-name">Scotland</span>, <br>
>         <span class="country-name">United Kingdom</span>
>     </div>
>
> Other countries that lie within the United Kingdom include England and 
> Wales, and some might argue Northern Ireland and perhaps even 
> Cornwall. The concept of countries within countries could also be 
> applied to the United Arab Emirates, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but 
> not to say, Australia or the United States where although the member 
> states enjoy similar levels of autonomy, few would seriously describe 
> them as countries.
>
>> In one of my earlier drafts for this diagram, I had implemented
>> givenName and familyName as multiple. I am not sure why I did this and
>> cannot find proper reference in the RFC. Can these be multiple?
>
>
> Similar situation. I can't think of any reason for including multiple 
> given-names and family-names in a vCard, but perhaps it might be 
> common in some other cultures — I don't know. Still, there's no harm 
> in supporting multiple instances. The hCard spec says multiple 
> instances are allowed.
>
>> Can geo be multiple?
>
> Not according to the hCard spec. The RFC isn't particularly explicit. 
> My parser supports multiple geos within a vCard. But that's just me 
> being lazy — easier to pull them all into an array than to choose one 
> to keep.
>
>> It is listed with the singular properties, but if geo is meant to 
>> reference a place, shouldn't geo be part of the Address it references?
>
> I can't imagine that many parsers would have a problem with geo being 
> nested within the address, but in vCard terms its a separate property, 
> so once parsed, should be represented separately from the address.
>
> > http://lib.omnia-computing.de/images/JCard.png
>
> You have "n" as being "0..*". Each hCard should have exactly one "n" 
> property, Though it may be implied rather than explicit, and it may be 
> empty in the case of hCards for organisations.
>
Thanks Toby. I have updated the zip file and the diagram now.

One more thing: I am unsure about the plural naming convention I suggested.
Apart from indicating if the value of  a property can hold multiple 
values, I don't see any added benefit right now. But I do see an 
unnecessary level of complexity when it comes to parsing an hCard into a 
jCard. You would need to know how to properly inflect a property, e.g. 
you cannot simply add an s to "honorific-prefix". And whats the plural 
of adr anyway? Same for converting plurals back into singulars. And 
since we want to represent an hCard anyway, why should we deviate from 
the property names of an hCard, if it's not adding any worthwhile 
benefit. So, back to singular?