Trevor and I have collected a nice set of samples of current practices. How do we move on? Help and guidance from the more experienced microformat community members (I'm just a server side scripter) would be appreciated for the next steps. <br> <br> Emiliano Martinez Luque<br> TheThingsIWant.com<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/31/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Emiliano Martinez Luque</b> <<a href="mailto:martinezluque@gmail.com">martinezluque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><span class="q"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This seems like the right approach. The traditional classified ad<br>categories (e.g. For Sale, Wanted, Services, Jobs, Real Estate, Events, <br>Personals) are a good starting point, but we should probably try to<br>narrow down the listing types that the microformat will support. For<br>example, does it make sense to include events, when hCalendar already<br> handles them quite well? Another concern would be "watering down" the <br>format by supporting too large a variety of content types.</blockquote> <div> </div></span> <div>I completely agree. Doing something that´s too complicated will defeat the purpose of this. But I guess, since we are in the exploratory stages looking at all types of listings makes sense. Particullarly for deciding in the future how to narrow down to the basics of a format and what extensions it should have. My guess (and it´s just a guess) is that at it´s most basic, newspaper classified ads (which is from where all the web based listing seems to have evolved), can be narrowed to type, title, description, contact. But I think that looking at all of the current web based types (and the specialized schemas for different types that seem to have evolved and implemented by different sites) is a good starting point. BTW, is anybody aware of any type of Job Offering and Asking XML vocabullary that has been developed? I know of none and it might be a good reference. </div><span class="q"><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've added several new example sections (real estate, jobs) and moved<br>some of the content into listing-formats: </blockquote> <div> </div></span> <div>You´ve done an amazing job, specially on categorizing the types of listings. Do you believe that for the sake of simplicity we should group rent and accomodation together? I´m not quite sure of that but I guess it makes sense. I´ve added some others from sites around the world (I forgot to login a couple of times, I´m sorry) some are quite big at their markets (like the <a href="http://trader.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">trader.com</a> network), some are quite small. I tried to look at a big sample from around the world. </div> <div> </div> <div>Emiliano</div> <div> </div><br> </div> </blockquote></div><br>