abstract-properties

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Abstract Properties

Some notes from an IRC conversation 20070118.

Regarding a possible abstract "mandatory" property:

Rather than abstracting to "mandatory" / "nice-to-have", I think it is worth seeing if such a property is in the 80/20 of those containing microformats first, and designing accordingly.

Creating abstract generic properties in a vacuum (or before / without constraining them with specific [[[examples]] per the process) will likely result in them either being overly watered down, or overly complex in order to handle "possible cases" instead of "actual cases".