[microformats-discuss] Declaring the use of microformats with XHTML

Thu Oct 6 12:28:17 PDT 2005

On Oct 6, 2005, at 8:23 AM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:

> This is an idea that's been kicking around in my head for the last  
> two months, so I'm just throwing it out there for discussion.
>
> Would it be a good [bad/indifferent] idea to require declaration in  
> the XHTML header that certain microformats are in use? The positive  
> points I see from this are

Already covered by profile URIs.

See http://gmpg.org/xmdp/

-ryan

> - scripts, such as Greasemonkey ones, won't unnecessarily scan  
> through XHTML documents looking for information that is not there;  
> after all, it's reasonable to expect that if this all works out,  
> there could be hundreds of possible microformats, many developed in  
> a decentralized manner or perhaps even one off (like within a  
> corporate environment)
> - reducing the possibility of 'accidental' recognition of  
> microformats that really aren't (for example, a listing of  
> someone's Holiday CARDs).
>
> This could be done with a header link [1] to the XMDP profile, for  
> example.
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <link
>  rel="microformat"
>  title="hcard"
>  href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-profile.xmdp" />
> ...
>
> There may also be need a profile [2] added to the <head> to make  
> this happen.
>
> Regards, etc...
> David
> http://www.blogmatrix.com
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.3
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-links
>
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