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"

anti design pattern

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attribute

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autodiscovery

see discovery

class

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compound microformat

See compound-microformat

deprecated

In the process of being phased out (see Deprecation on Wikiepedia)

design pattern

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discovery

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DRY

Don't Repeat Yourslef

See DRY

element

??? (see HTML element on Wikipedia)

elemental microformat

See elemental-microformat

grandfather(ed)

Something which is an exception to a rule (or pattern, behaviour, etc.), because it existed before that rule was formulated.

HTML

HyperText Mark-up Language

see HTML on Wkiipedia and XHTML, below

mark-up

n. the (X)HTML codes and related classes which, when wrapped around data, turn it into a web page.

mark up

v. to apply mark-up.

mfbot

mfbot is an IRC bot which logs all edits to this wiki.

microformat

See http://microformats.org/about/.

microformateer

A person involved with microformats.

namespace

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parse

(verb) To extract data from a format using explicit parsing rules for one or more formats, such as microformats (see also "scrape").

See also 'parsing' on Wikipedia

picoformat

A syntax for communicating and executing commands with mobile devices over SMS. See picoformats

POSH

Plain Old Semantic (X)HTML

process

The recommended procedure for proposing a new microformat. See process

profile

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property

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rel

a property which signifies the relationship of one page to another, linked, page.

rev

as rel, but applying in the reverse direction. Generally deprecated for microformats.

scrape

(verb) To extract apparent data from a file/stream (plain text, HTML, RSS, XML, whatever) using regular expressions or other made-up rules that are not explicitly defined by the data formats (if any) that you are extracting. (see also "parse")

tag

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tag space

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uF

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

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier: a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource. See URIs on Wikipedia

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

1. in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)—many popular and technical texts will use the term "URL" when referring to URI;
2. in strict technical usage, it is a subset of URI specific to identifiers who are primarily locators.

See URLs on Wikipedia

value

??? (see HTML element on Wikipedia)

(X)HTML

A generic term, meaning "HTML or XHTML".

XHTML

HTML reformulated in XML.

See see XHTML on Wkiipedia or http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ for more information.

XMDP

(X)HTML Meta Data Profile

See XMDP on Wikipedia