[microformats-discuss] hCard updates: RFC2426 examples converted to hCard examples, hcard-parsing ready for review.

Tantek Ç elik tantek at cs.stanford.edu
Fri Sep 9 08:15:29 PDT 2005


On 9/8/05 8:14 PM, "Mark Pilgrim" <pilgrim at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/8/05, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>  http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing
> 
> "<a href="mailto:..."> : use the value of the 'href' attribute,
> omitting the "mailto:" prefix in the attribute."
> 
> This is incorrect, or at least incomplete, because a mailto: URL may
> contain query parameters which are not part of the "email" field.

Good catch.

Yes, we should specify what to do with query params on a mailto URL.

I'm not certain that they cannot be a part of the "email" field, but
conservatively speaking they should be left out.

Updated:

 http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing

Thanks,

Tantek




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