glossary

Microformats Glossary

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microformat

See http://microformats.org/about/.

@

in the context of, say, @rel, this is shorthand for attribute, so "the @rel" should be read as "the rel attribute"

attribute

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autodiscovery

see discovery

class

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compound microformat

See compound-microformat

design pattern

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discovery

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DRY

See DRY

element

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elemental microformat

See elemental-microformat

HTML

HyperText mark-up Language (see also XHTML)

mark-up

n. the (X)HTML codes and related classes which, when wrapped around data, turn it into a web page.

mark up

v. to apply mark-up.

microformateer

A person involved with microformats.

parser

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process

The recommended procedure for proposing a new microformat. See process

property

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rel

a property which signifies the relationship of one page to another, linked, page.

rev

as rel, but applying in the reverse direction.

tag

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uF

Shorthand for microformat, especially used in e-mail and on IRC. Plural: uFs.

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier: a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource. See URIs on Wikipedia

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

1. in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)—many popular and technical texts will use the term "URL" when referring to URI;
2. in strict technical usage, it is a subset of URI specific to identifiers who are primarily locators.

See URLs on Wikipedia

(X)HTML

A generic term, meaning "HTML or XHTML"

XHTML

HTML reformulated in XML. (See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ for more information.)