hKit

hKit is an open source library and web service written by Drew McLellan that implements parsing of hCards into a PHP or JSON data structure.

open source

• hKit Microformats Toolkit for PHP5 as announced by Drew McLellan

web service

• hKit parser web service
• Example: http://tools.microformatic.com/query/plain/hkit/microformats.org

how to call

See representative-hcard-parsing for open source PHP to call hKit and extract the representative hCard from a page that has multiple hCards.

implementations

Services that use hKit:

• GetSatisfaction.com (as blogged: http://microformats.org/blog/2007/06/21/microformatsorg-turns-2/ )

issues

Issues that have been found with hKit:

• hCard profile import is erratic

related

• hCard
• implementations
• social-network-portability