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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>But many sites do present a sitemap
already for humans first. I think it’s quite helpful when a site does have one.
Not everyone will generate them, true, but a sitemap can also represent a
logical structure that isn’t necessary reflective of a filesystem structure.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The sitemap itself can be content for the
end users. If one existed, wouldn’t we want to take advantage of it?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you are looking for Microformats on my
site and pointed an aggregator at my home page, I’d rather you use my sitemap
than crawl my entire site.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I understand the DRY principle as well,
but in this case, the sitemap is a unique piece of content that isn’t repeated
anywhere else. If you think about it, even having xpmd’s in the head section
is a form of repetition. If I remove a microformat or add one to a page, I should
remember to update the xpmds in the head section.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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microformats-discuss-bounces@microformats.org
[mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces@microformats.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Antonio Touriño<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 24, 2006 5:17
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Microformats Discuss<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [uf-discuss]
Enumerating Microformats on a Page</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi all,<br>
<br>
First post to the list after lurking for quite some time. Hopefully I don't
come accross as too negative. I will give it a shot.<br>
<br>
</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 3/24/06, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Scott
Reynen</span></b> <<a href="mailto:scott@randomchaos.com">scott@randomchaos.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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If microformat site maps<br>
existed, I would use them as starting points to know where to look,<br>
but I wouldn't trust them as any sort of accurate listing of what's<br>
on a domain just because I know I would likely forget to update my <br>
own if I had one. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><br>
I don't think having a sitemap is such a hot idea precisely for this reason. It
violates the DRY (don't repeat yourself) principle. You will update your site
and of course, at some point you will forget to update your siteindex unless
you use some sort of automated tool to do the updating for you, but you KNOW
that not everyone is going to use a tool such as this. So I think we are better
off having just tools that detect the presence of uf's by parsing the whole
shebang. If you add a siteindex you will complicate things for the publisher
which will hurt adoption. Remember humans first, machines second.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Antonio<br>
<br clear=all>
<br>
-- <br>
Antonio Touriño<br>
Consultor en Tecnologías Web<br>
Brilliance Tech </span></font></p>
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