<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Mark Pilgrim wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2) Microformats allow arbitrary extension though the use of custom html</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">classes provided by the document author. Unknown classes are still</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">valid, so they can't be declared as errors.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">3) The only validation that is possible is to ensure all data that must</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">be present in a particular microformat is present.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Wrong.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>See <A href="http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-dev/2006-April/000083.html">http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-dev/2006-April/000083.html</A></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Whoa, guess I missed the second point, which also seems valid to me. Take my comments for example on:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://cdevroe.com/notes/hcard-in-wordpress-comments/">http://cdevroe.com/notes/hcard-in-wordpress-comments/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I might also assign another class to my comment links specifically, and it won't break the validity of my hCards (that I know of). For example, if I wanted to do class="fn url comment_author_link" it would still be fine. Which I think is what is being said above as well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Colin D. Devroe</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ps. Sorry for the multiple post, and being a rookie.</DIV></BODY></HTML>