[microformats-discuss] hSpec

[Mark Pilgrim]

New to the list, apologies if this has been discussed before.

I've been thinking about creating hSpec, a microformat based on RFC
2629 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2629.html

RFCs can be authored in XML and then transformed into (normative) text
versions and (informative) HTML versions.  Examples of HTML versions
abound; search Google for the exact string "Funding for the RFC Editor
function is currently provided by the Internet Society" and add
"-filetype:txt" to weed out the text versions.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=-filetype%3Atxt+%22Funding+for+the+RFC+Editor+function+is+currently+provided+by+the+Internet+Society%22&btnG=Search

The HTML versions of RFCs currently expose virtually none of the
semantics of the original XML.  However, virtually all of them are
created with a single program, xml2rfc <http://xml.resource.org/>. 
Adding microformat support to this program would have a huge impact on
all future published or republished RFCs.

RFC 2629 includes a complete DTD, which could serve as the reference
for the hSpec class names.

Thoughts?

-- 
Cheers,
-Mark