[uf-new] Comment Questions

[Martin McEvoy]

David Janes wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Martin McEvoy <martin at weborganics.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> The hAtom spec says :
>>
>> "an Entry /SHOULD/ have an Entry Title"
>>
>> Unfortunately None of the comment examples Support an entry-title element,
>> in fact the "title" of a comment rarely occurs in common practice. How would
>> a comment microformat (should it reuse hatom terms)  resolve the concept of
>> entry-title?
>>
>> http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom#Entry_Title
>>     
>
> Noting the difference between the Physical Model and the Logical Model
> for hAtom, several options occur when a entry-title is not present:
>
> * use the parent's entry-title
> * use Re: <parent-entry-title> (locale issues)
> * use an empty tile
>   
Looks like a difficult parsing model, does anything actually implement 
that? Microformats are about what you can see on a page, creating stuff 
out of thin air seems a little inconsistent and a little difficult to 
explain....
>   
>> The hAtom spec' also says:
>>
>> an Entry /SHOULD/ have an Entry Permalink
>>
>> Permalinks to comments DO occur but only around 40% of the time in the
>> examples I have studied, but more often than that there is no permalink at
>> all. The easy solution to that I suppose is require that every comment
>>  /must/ have a unique ID then a "permalink" can be generated into a fragment
>> url eg: http://someweb.com/page#comment1, but isnt this imposing too much on
>> would be authors by explicitly stating that every comment /must/ have an ID
>>
>> http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom#Entry_Permalink
>>
>>     
>
> How many have an ID tag where an Entry Permalink could be inferred?
>   
Quite a few of the examples do have an @id attribute 60% of them, how 
would I determine a permalink for the other 40%.
> Regards, etc...
>
>   

Thanks David

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Martin McEvoy

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