validating microformats (was Re: [uf-discuss] Google Gdata new syndication protocol!)

[Colin D. Devroe]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Mark Pilgrim wrote:

>> 2) Microformats allow arbitrary extension though the use of custom  
>> html
>> classes provided by the document author. Unknown classes are still
>> valid, so they can't be declared as errors.
>> 3) The only validation that is possible is to ensure all data that  
>> must
>> be present in a particular microformat is present.
>
> Wrong.  See http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-dev/ 
> 2006-April/000083.html


Whoa, guess I missed the second point, which also seems valid to me.   
Take my comments for example on:
http://cdevroe.com/notes/hcard-in-wordpress-comments/

I might also assign another class to my comment links specifically,  
and it won't break the validity of my hCards (that I know of).  For  
example, if I wanted to do class="fn url comment_author_link" it  
would still be fine.  Which I think is what is being said above as well.

Colin D. Devroe

Ps. Sorry for the multiple post, and being a rookie.
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