[microformats-discuss] Definition of "microformat"?

[Ryan King]

On Sep 16, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I can never resist a good etymological workout. :-) Here's my take:
>
> Microformats are
>  terse conventions
>    for using existing tags
>    and brief, descriptive class names
>  that assign precise semantics
>    for a single, well-defined problem domain
>    within HTML/XHTML/XML documents
>
> In short, "Microformats are terse conventions that assign precise  
> semantics."

That's very terse.... and precise.

-ryan