[uf-discuss] re: HTML5 support

[Philip Jägenstedt]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:15:48 +0200, Angelo Gladding <angelo at gladding.name>  
wrote:

> Does Microdoata check syntax as well? If so, how does it know what syntax
> to look for without sniffing the vocabulary specification? e.g. How does  
> the
> parser know to store http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#bday as a  
> datetime?

No, there's no checking of the vocabulary-specific rules. When it comes to  
dates, those are expressed using <time>, so you can validate those by  
simply using an HTML validator. The general constraints of microdata can  
also be checked by an HTML validator, but I don't know how far along  
validator.nu is in its support yet.

-- 
Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software