[uf-discuss] Using YQL with Microformats

[Burcu Dogan]

I think if there is no representative hCard at all and there are more than
one hCard, the card with most attributes can be counted as the main
identity. But what if there is an equality?

Regards,
Burcu Dogan

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, André Luís <andr3.pt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was gonna point out the same thing... it can't handle multiple hcards, yet. :)
>
> You might want to enhance the logic that's dealing with the results of
> the YQL query to include this steps:
>
> 1- if there's ONE hcard, use it.
> 2- if there's more than one:
>   2.1 Is there any representative hcard?
> http://microformats.org/wiki/representative-hcard
>          - if there's ONE, use it.
>          - "there can/should be only one", but.... if there's more,
> show their names and ask the user to point out his/hers.
>   2.2 If there isn't any representative hcard, show their names and
> ask the user to point out his/hers.
>
> Don't get me wrong, this is *very* cool. Specially since it delegates
> to Yahoo! the weight of parsing the pages. I've been using Dmitry's
> Optimus on my own server, but I might change my approach to use YQL
> very soon. ;)
>
> Good job George.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> André Luís
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Gordon Oheim <gordon at onlinehome.de> wrote:
>> Hi George,
>>
>> looks good, but I was unable to load pages over https and I couldn't get it
>> to work with pages that contain multiple hCards.
>> YQL is something I need to implement into the hCardMapper when I can find
>> the time.
>>
>> Regards, Gordon
>>
>> George Ornbo schrieb:
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I'd like to share an example I knocked up showing how YQL can be used
>>> to populate forms using just a URL.
>>>
>>> YQL returns JSON from Microformats and jQuery handles it to put the
>>> correct data into the form. No database, just semantic web goodness.
>>>
>>> Demo here: http://tr.im/hcardme
>>> Blog post here: http://tr.im/yqlmf
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> George
>>>
>>>
>>
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