hproduct-issues

HP1 - hProduct vs hListing regarding "price" / "quantity" / "shipping" fields

• open issue! 2008-12-17 raised by NicolasLeroy

• 1. In the "out of scope" section, it is explained: _"This microformat does not intend to replicate any of the content proposed within hListing and would defer all money/transactional matters to that microformat"_
  2. However, in the hProduct schema, we have the following fields:
     • "price. optional. floating point number. can be further refined by type (msrp, regular, sale, clearance)" => if the price is the retailer price, then it should be delegated to hListing. We could imagine it represents the "manufacturer" price (which could be different from the retailer price) ; in this case, it should clearly be explained in the schema definition.
     • I would say there is also ambiguity between the responsibilities of hProduct vs hListing for the following fields: quantity / shipping
       • Response by Jay Myers, 2008-02-16: I believe everyone agrees that we would borrow price from hListing for hProduct spec. I will explain the concept further in the schema.
       • Response by Jay Myers, 2008-02-16: I don't follow the quantity/ shipping issue. I don't see either of these on hListing, unless the concepts are somehow embedded in other attributes. Can you elaborate on what the ambiguity is?

HP2 - FN should be used instead of N for product title

• open issue! 2009-02-17 raised by ManuSporny

• Why is n used instead of fn for the title of the product? hCard and hAudio both use fn for the formatted name of the product. n is usually an optimization.

HP3 - BUY duplicates functionality of PAYMENT from hAudio

• open issue! BUY duplicates functionality of PAYMENT from hAudio2009-02-17 raised by ManuSporny

• buy is duplicating the functionality of payment from hAudio.

HP4 - Are all of the formats for PRICE in hProduct allowed

• open issue! 2009-02-17 raised by ManuSporny

• The way that price is used is iffy - do we allow anything but currency/amount in the compound statement?

HP5 - The format for the contents of SHIPPING are vague

• open issue! 2009-02-17 raised by ManuSporny

• Seems like shipping could be abused quite a bit, resulting in a term that is fairly useless as time moves on.

HP6 - P-V seems like it's being used as a catch-all for hProduct

• open issue! 2009-02-17 raised by ManuSporny

• p-v seems like a catch-all, shoe-horn attempt at making the microformat infinitely scalable? Is this really useful?

HP7 - Lots of vocabulary terms, does the data really back this up?

• open issue! 2009-02-17 raised by ManuSporny

• There seem to be a great deal of vocab terms and the terms seem to be fairly loosely defined... are they all justified? Is there a file that we can analyze (like via microformalyze)?

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