<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi folks, I'm hoping you can clear something up for me... When using the <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/class-design-pattern">class pattern</a> in a microformat, is the type of the tag defined as part of the format?  Most existing microformats (hcard, hcalendar) use SPAN in their examples, for lack of a more semantic alternative.  But does this mean the those elements must be "SPAN"? For example, could the hcalendar summary property, shown as "" in the example, be rendered as "<blockquote class=summary>" instead... and still be valid hCalendar XHTML? My assumption is that this is perfectly valid (I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be), but it's not clearly called out anywhere. The only verbage I've found that addresses this sentence in the various specs: <blockquote>The basic format of hCalendar is to use iCalendar object/property names in lower-case for class names, and to map the nesting of iCalendar objects directly into nested XHTML. </blockquote> ... along with the examples in hcard where various elements are merged together (using multiple class names), thus implicitely changing the node type for the merged elements. - rwk <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Robert Kieffer - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:robert@broofa.com">robert@broofa.com</a> - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.broofa.com">http://www.broofa.com</a> </pre> </body> </html>