The value excerption pattern is derived from value-excerpting in hCard. As such, it is already somewhat supported in parsers. However, the precise parsing behavior is not yet finalized, so the pattern should be used only with extreme caution, and with the awareness that the editing of more precise parsing rules could impact your pages.
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Sometimes, only a part of an element's content is used as the value of a microformat property. This may occur when a property has optional sub-properties, such as tel in hCard. Other times, the most logical, semantic element for the property class name may include other content.
For these purposes, the special class name value is used to excerpt out the relevant element content.
Simple Examples
Here is an hCard fragment for marking up a home phone number:
vCard:
TEL;TYPE=HOME:+1.415.555.1212
hCard:
<span class="tel"> <span class="type">Home</span>: <span class="value">+1.415.555.1212</span> </span>
In this case, the value of tel is +1.415.555.1212, not Home: +1.415.555.1212.
Another example, this time using price in hListing:
<p class="price"> I want to sell for <span class="value">£15</span> </p>
In this case, price will parse as £15, rather than as the entire sentence.
Another example, using dtstart in hCalendar:
<span class="dtstart"> Friday 25th May, 6pm <span class="value">2008-05-25T18:00:00+0100</span> </span>
Whilst the entire string ‘Friday 25th May […]’ is semantically the date, it's the ISO 8601 encoded form alone which must be consumed by a microformats parser, so the value class isolates it.
Parsing
- Where an element with a microformat property class name has an descendant with class name
value, parsers should read the inner-text of thevalueelement only, ignoring other text node descendants. - Where multiple descendants of a property all have a class name of
value, they should be concatenated, without inserting additional characters or white-space. - Where an element
foowith classvaluehas a descendantbarwith classvalue, the entire content offoois taken as thevalue. Nesting additional elements with class ofvaluecannot be used to further isolate a property's value.