[uf-discuss] Appropriate microformats for journal listings?

Angus McIntyre angus at pobox.com
Wed Apr 9 04:52:21 PDT 2008


At 2:04 PM +0100 4/8/08, Ben Ward wrote:
>Seems like a very good fit with hAtom, the only 
>complication being the presence of multiple 
>authors which is unhandled in hAtom, andŠ 
>untestedŠ in hCard.
>
>VCARD has a concept of 'AGENTS', which effectively nests vcards
>within each other. They're unhandled in desktop software, so demand
>to work out parsing rules in hCard has been low.

Thank you for the suggestions and examples. That's very helpful.

Does anyone know how well these are handled by 
current software? i.e. will anything that tries 
to read multi-author hAtoms, or hCard with agents:

    a. Degrade gracefully, or
    b. Ignore loftily, or
    c. Fail catastrophically?

Incidentally, with regard to hAtom use, would you 
recommend making each journal an individual 
hFeed, with the articles represented by an hEntry 
... or should the page as a whole be an hFeed, 
with each journal edition being an hEntry?

Thanks,

Angus



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