[uf-discuss] Formatting of Movie Credits information

[Karl Dubost]

Le 2005-11-16 à 18:19, Goodlatte, Robert a écrit :
> people's opinions on the subject.  Is this proper use of a  
> definition list?
> If not, what other formatting should I use?
>
> Right now, my HTML would look something like this:
>
> <dl>
> <dt id='title'>Title</dt>
>   <dd>Walk the Line</dd>
> <dt id='genre'>Genre</dt>
>   <dd>Biography, Musical, Drama</dd>
> <dt id='cast'>Cast</dt>
>    <dd>Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Patrick, Ginnifer  
> Goodwin,
> Shelby Lynne</dd>

I would say it's an abuse of definition list, but at the same time,  
definition list is not very strictly defined in the HTML 4.01  
specification.

> Would an unordered list be a more appropriate way to format this
> information?  Is there a microformat I could use?


### References
I have never seen a microformat or set of classes specific for movies.
But somehow it might be closely related to

* http://microformats.org/wiki/reviews-formats
* http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hReview
* http://www.amk.ca/xml/reviews.html
* http://structuredblogging.org/xmlns/simple-review.xsd

There's also

* Design of Ontology for The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
   http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~skallu1/IMDb.pdf
* Graph Structure which was designed to import the IMDB database
   http://tripletest.sourceforge.net/2005-06-08/imdb-graph-structure.txt
* A parser for the IMDB database
   http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/

### Comments
Don't take them as mandatory things but just references materials  
that you can reuse to organize your own profile/microformats.









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