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So you wanna use microformats?

Microformats are designed to be similar to current markup styles. This means that it is quite possible that you won't have to do much work to produce microformats on your site.

For example...

• Do you have events information on your site? Then mark those events up with hCalendar.
  • Start with the hCalendar creator.
• Do you have people and their contact information? Then mark those up with hCard.
  • Start with the hCard creator and take a look at the hcard-examples.
• Do you have an explicit copyright license on your content? Then markup the link to your license with relLicense.
• Do you have social networking data? Then mark that up with XFN. Are you tagging things? Then use relTag or xFolk.
• Are you publishing lists or outlines? Then use XOXO.
• Do you publish reviews? Then use hReview.
  • Start with the hReview creator.
• Do you publish press releases? Then use hatom.

You see, many common kinds of content can be marked up in microformats. Chances are, you already have some of them on your site. Start with the obvious ones.

And here's a few more tips:

• Try to produce clean, semantic xhtml. Often this will get you very close to microformats on its own.
  • Class for meaning not for show
  • http://microformats.org/wiki/SemanticXHTMLDesignPrinciples
  • Semantic XHTML
  • Meaningful XHTML
  • Real World Semantics
  • need more links here --RyanKing 14:42, 17 Jan 2006 (PST)