[uf-rest] "typed" microformats proposal

Tantek Ç elik tantek at cs.stanford.edu
Mon Feb 13 23:06:16 PST 2006


Ernie,

Excellent document.  I found only a few small additional nits and provided
inline comments on the page as well.  I've also cleaned up a bit of the wiki
style/markup to hopefully make it more readable.

 http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/datatypes

Thanks,

Tantek



On 2/13/06 4:49 PM, "Dr. Ernie Prabhakar" <drernie at opendarwin.org> wrote:

> Excellent comments -- I agree with most of them.  For those who don't
> know, the easiest way to see them is via history:
> 
> http://microformats.org/wiki?title=rest%2Fdatatypes&diff=0&oldid=4945
> 
> I'll wait to see if anyone else has a different perspective before
> integrating Kevin's comments.
> 
> The one area I'm most unsure about is "int" -- is there any harm in
> just calling this "any integer" rather than restricting it to
> "int32"?  How would the failure/parsing modes differ?
> 
> -- Ernie P.
> 
> 
> On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Kevin Marks wrote:
> 
>> Comments added to the page
>> On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>> 
>>> Doh -- my apologies for the lack of plaintext.  Here it is again
>>> -- Ernie P.
>>> 
>>> On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Since nobody seemed to have anything new to add, I've finished up
>>> the proposal for how to add datatypes to XOXO:
>>> 
>>> http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/datatypes
>>> 
>>> As you may recall, the proposal is to use XML-RPC datatypes with a
>>> few caveats (e.g., not ".iso8601"). Here's an example:
>>> 
>>>  <dl class="typed xoxo">
>>>   <dt>key</dt><dd class="string">value</dd>
>>>   <dt>integer</dt><dd class="int">137</dd>
>>>   <dt>real</dt><dd class="double">3.14159265</dd>
>>>   <dt>date</dt><dd class="dateTime">1994-11-05T13:15:30Z</dd>
>>>   <dt>date(abbr)</dt><dd class="dateTime"><abbr
>>> title="1994-11-05">November 5, 1994</abbr></dd>
>>>   <dt>true</dt><dd class="boolean">1</dd>
>>>   <dt>false</dt><dd class="boolean">0</dd>
>>>   <dt>data</dt><dd class="base64"><a
>>> href="data:;base64,sdcfo2JTiXE=" type="image/jpg">my image</a></dd>
>>>  </dl>
>>> 
>>> As always, let me know what you think.  Thanks!
>>> 
>>> -- Ernie P.
>>> 
>>> 
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