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

Andy Mabbett andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Mon Feb 4 12:12:54 PST 2008


In message 
<21e770780802041113w648fd040l641a335292dfdb4a at mail.gmail.com>, Brian 
Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> writes

>008/2/4, Manu Sporny <msporny at digitalbazaar.com>:
>> Here are more examples of Microformats using "emulated namespace"s:
>>
>> country-name      (hCard)
>> organization-name (hCard)
>> organization-unit (hCard)
>
>--- i do not consider these namespaces. In the vCard RFC the value is 
>called "Country Name", "Organization Name" and "Organization Unit" with 
>spaces. Since we could not use spaces in a class attribute we had two 
>choices, CamelCase or hypens. We chose Hypes. There was no attempt to 
>do any sorts of "emulated namespace", more simply just concatenating 
>space-separated-terms so they could be used in the class attribute.

OK, so let's use, say, "track title", "song title" and/ or "album 
title". Oh, they have spaces, so we have two choices...

-- 
Andy Mabbett


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