[uf-new] Namespace anti-pattern and hAudio TITLE (was: hAudio FN or Title)

[David Janes]

On Feb 4, 2008 10:38 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny at digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> Microformats use "emulated namespaces"[3], for proof, we need only look
> to hAtom[5]:
>
> * entry-title
> * entry-content
> * entry-summary
>
> In this example, "entry" is an "emulated namespace". This community has
> been mis-using the word "namespace" for several years now, and it's
> causing too many problems for those that are attempting to understand
> why we allow "entry-title", but don't allow "namespaces".
>

No, it just looks like it uses an "emulates namespace" - please see
the hAtom discussions from two years ago if you're interested in the
gory details. Essentially, the definition of those three items _is so
specific to the problem domain_ that we invented names specifically
for that.

e.g. "entry-title" isn't any old title, it's specifically the Atom
concept of a title. You could imagine a blog post semantically marked
up where a "fn" is around the entry-title with some more information
("David Janes says...")

Regards, etc...

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