<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Mar 15, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Rick Olson wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">WHat I wanted to be able to do was post HTML (marked up with microformats)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to my endpoint just as I would post XML, and to have mofo then parse that</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">HTML and pull out the relevant content.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The problem with this is that unless you code your rails models to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">match specific microformats, the chances of the two data formats</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">lining up are slim.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You'll need to write a custom param parser that</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">wires attributes from whatever microformat you're receiving with your</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">model's attributes.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>One thing I've been considering for that is overriding the new and/or create methods on my models (or adding a new method) that will accept a mofo object as input and map it to field names. That could work as a plugin. So my process would be:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>* param_parser detects microformats and sets up params containing the microformat objects</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>* overridden AR method receives microformat objects and translates them into models</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's not as elegant as I'd like, but it's the best I've been able to come up with so far.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>James.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>James Stewart</DIV><DIV>Play: <A href="http://james.anthropiccollective.org">http://james.anthropiccollective.org</A></DIV><DIV>Work: <A href="http://jystewart.net/process/">http://jystewart.net/process/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>