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Parsing

This is a braindump, this page will need cleaning-up, take everything with a grain of salt at the moment.

By Element

This is a matrix of element and type. This should be describe under what circumstances each value and where that value comes from. The list of elements has been taken from http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html

data types

(this probably needs a better name) There are two types in microformats, protocol types and strings. Strings could be integers, such as ratings, strings, such as a note, or datetimes, such as dtstart. Protocol types are UIDs, URLs, email addresses, (sometimes Telephones and faxes)

If there is a comma list, then this is in order of availability. For instance, the ABBR element is @title,node-value. IF the @title is present then it is used, if not the stack is popped and node-value is looked at, if there is no node-value, then the value is NULL.

	protocol	string
A	@href,node-value	node-value
ABBR	@title,node-value	@title,node-value
ACRONYM	@title,node-value	@title,node-value
ADDRESS	node-value	node-value
APPLET	???	???(node-value)
AREA	@href,node-value	node-value
B	node-value	node-value
BASE (valid?)	@href
BASEFONT (valid?)
BDO (valid?)
BIG	node-value	node-value
BLOCKQUOTE	@cite?,node-value	node-value
BODY	node-value	node-value
BR (valid?)
BUTTON	@value?	@value?
CAPTION	node-value	node-value
CENTER	node-value	node-value
CITE	node-value	node-value
CODE	node-value	node-value
COL	node-value	node-value
COLGROUP	node-value	node-value
DD	node-value	node-value
DEL	@cite,node-value	node-value
DFN	node-value	node-value
DIR	node-value	node-value
DIV	node-value	node-value
DL	node-value	node-value
DT	node-value	node-value
EM	node-value	node-value
FIELDSET	node-value	node-value
FONT	node-value	node-value
FORM	@action?,node-value	node-value
FRAME	@src?,node-value	node-value
FRAMESET	node-value	node-value
H1	node-value	node-value
H2	node-value	node-value
H3	node-value	node-value
H4	node-value	node-value
H5	node-value	node-value
H6	node-value	node-value
HEAD (valid?)	node-value	node-value
HR (valid?)	node-value	node-value
HTML (valid?)	node-value	node-value
I	node-value	node-value
IFRAME	@src?	node-value
IMG	@src	@alt
INPUT	@value?	@value?
INS	@cite,node-value	node-value
ISINDEX (valid?)
KBD	node-value	node-value
LABEL	node-value	node-value
LEGEND	node-value	node-value
LI	node-value	node-value
LINK (valid?)
MAP	node-value	node-value
MENU (valid?)
META (valid?)
NOFRAMES	node-value	node-value
NOSCRIPT	node-value	node-value
OBJECT	@data,node-value	node-value
OL	node-value	node-value
OPTGROUP (valid?)	node-value	node-value
OPTION	node-value	node-value
P	node-value	node-value
PARAM (?)	node-value	node-value
PRE	node-value	node-value
Q	node-value	node-value
S	node-value	node-value
SAMP	node-value	node-value
SCRIPT	node-value	node-value
SELECT (valid?)	node-value	node-value
SMALL	node-value	node-value
SPAN	node-value	node-value
STRIKE	node-value	node-value
STRONG	node-value	node-value
STYLE (valid?)	node-value	node-value
SUB	node-value	node-value
SUP	node-value	node-value
TABLE(valid?)	node-value	node-value
TBODY	node-value	node-value
TD	node-value	node-value
TEXTAREA	node-value	node-value
TFOOT	node-value	node-value
TH	node-value	node-value
THEAD	node-value	node-value
TITLE	node-value	node-value
TR	node-value	node-value
TT	node-value	node-value
U	node-value	node-value
UL	node-value	node-value
VAR	node-value	node-value

Links

• XML.com Parsing microformats