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hCard tests

The hcard and hcalendar tests collection (http://microformats.org/tests/) was announced in a Jun 7 2006 message (http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-dev/2006-June/000102.html) from RyanKing (http://theryanking.com/).

They are published at http://microformats.org/tests/hcard/. Each test has an HTML file to parse and a vCard file which describes the hCard data contained in the HTML file.

It's managed in an hg repository (http://hg.microformats.org/tests/). hg/mercurial (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/) is a distributed revision control system. It can be a little tricky to unlearn cvs habits; there are some good diagrams in slides from a 19 Jun talk that Bryan O'Sullivan gave at google (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Presentations?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=google.pdf). The mercurial presentations page (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Presentations) also has a link to a 50 minute video.

An x2v hg repository (http://hg.microformats.org/x2v/) holds code that, by design, passes the tests. x2v-issues is a place to track issues in that code.

External Tests

These tests have been obsoleted by the above test suite.

DanConnolly is working on hcardTest.html (http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2001/palmagent/hcardTest.html); the current version (http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2001/palmagent/hcardTest.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html;%20charset=iso-8859-1) is always available. (I dunno why cvsweb uses the ordinary looing URL for the changelog rather than the current version.)

MarkPilgrim maintains a series of hCard tests (http://diveintomark.org/projects/greasemonkey/hcard/tests/) for use with his hCard parser (http://diveintomark.org/projects/greasemonkey/hcard/)

Related Pages

• hCard
• hCard cheatsheet - hCard properties
• hCard creator (http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator) (feedback) - create your own hCard.
• hCard authoring - learn how to add hCard markup to your existing contact info.
• hCard examples - example usage of various classes within hCard.
• hCard examples in the wild - an on-going list of websites which use hCards.
  • hCard examples in the wild, with problems
• hCard FAQ - if you have any questions about hCard, check here.
• hCard implementations - websites or tools which either generate or parse hCards.
• hcard-implied - a proposal to create a alternative method of marking up a simple hCard
• hCard parsing - normative details of how to parse hCards.
• hcard-user-interface - techniques and issues surrounding user-interfaces to author, publish, and display hCards.
• hCard profile - the XMDP profile for hCard
• hCard singular properties - an explanation of the list of singular properties in hCard.
• hCard tests - a wiki page with actual embedded hCards to try parsing.
• hCard advocacy - encourage others to use hCard
• hCard "to do" - jobs to do

The hCard specification is a work in progress. As additional aspects are discussed, understood, and written, they will be added. These thoughts, issues, and questions are kept in separate pages.

• hCard brainstorming - brainstorms and other explorations relating to hCard.
  • hcard-parsing-brainstorming - brainstorming specific to parsing of hCard
  • geo brainstorming
• hCard feedback - general feedback (as opposed to specific issues).
• hCard issues - specific issues with the specification.
• vCard errata - corrections to the vCard specification, which underlies hCard.
• vCard suggestions - suggested improvements to the vCard specification.