[microformats-discuss] Re: Education

[David Janes -- BlogMatrix]

Wow, thanks Ernie. I spent an afternoon (well, parts of it) trying to 
come up with an explanation about what we're on about; you got the best 
two of them in there.

Regards, etc...
David
http://www.blogmatrix.com

Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:15 PM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:
> 
>> Microformats are for codifying commonly used information-rich HTML  
>> content in such a way that semantic meaning can be machine extracted.
> 
> 
> These are great quotes.  I've added them to the <http:// 
> microformats.org/wiki/introduction> page.  Feel free to hack further.
> 
> == What are Microformats? ==
> 
> Microformats are the "dictionaries" of XHTML semantic content.  They  
> are for codifying commonly used information-rich HTML content in such  a 
> way that semantic meaning can be machine extracted.  In short, they  are 
> the easiest-possible way to design data (or data formats)  intended for 
> reuse on the web.