glossary

Microformats Glossary

If you have a term you wish to see defined, please feel free to add it to the list, in alphabetical order (apart from the first entry).

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

elemental microformat

See elemental-microformat

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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uF

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

XHTML

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