[uf-discuss] hreview item question

[Chris Casciano]

On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote:

> On 6/26/06 9:07 AM, "Chris Casciano" <chris at placenamehere.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 25, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Ryan King wrote:
>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> -ryan
>>>
>>> On Jun 24, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Chris Casciano wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to pull together the ui for hreview creation in my
>>>> textpattern plugin and need to balance some flexibility vs 
>>>> complexity
>>>> issues ... without hitting those concerns (because they're primarily
>>>> txp issues and not mf related) I had a question on allowable
>>>> locations of item data (hcard, hcalendar, simple item types)
>>>>
>>>> i see an example in the wiki with the merged <div class="description
>>>> item vcard"> ... but can item be a child of description .. for
>>>> example
>>>>
>>>> <span class="type">business</span>
>>>> <div class="description item">
>>>> <div class="vcard"></div>
>>>> <p>some description</p>
>>>> </div>
>>>>
>>>> or
>>>>
>>>> <span class="type">website</span>
>>>> <div class="description item">
>>>> <a class="fn url"
>>>> href="http://microformats.org/">Microformats.org</a>
>>>> <p>some description</p>
>>>> </div>
>>>>
>>>> I've done some derivation of the second case already on my own
>>>> blog[1] but I wanted to be clear on the legality of this style of
>>>> nesting the elements before I codified it and distributed it in a
>>>> plugin.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://placenamehere.com/article/211/TechnoratisNewToys
>>>
>>
>> More random questions on this....
>>
>> what does a parser do if there happens to be another vcard inside the
>> <div class="description item"> block?
>>
>> I can totally envision something written like ...
>>
>> Summary: Technorati is a great company
>> Description+Item: *Technorati* has been doing great things lately
>> helped by great people like *Ryan King*.
>
> Take the first one as *the* one.
>
> In general that is the parsing rule for microformats where a singleton 
> is
> required (e.g. single "FN" property).  If you find more than one 
> instance
> where you were expecting only one, just use the first instance found.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tantek
>

That doesn't seem particularly intelligent... or easy to understand for 
authors... why should wone of these be correct and the other incorrect 
/ impossible to write?

>> Summary: Technorati is a great company
>> Description+Item: *Technorati* has been doing great things lately
>> helped by great people like *Ryan King*.

vs.

>> Summary: Technorati is a great company
>> Description+Item: *Ryan* and *Tantek* are among the many people 
>> making *Technorati* into a great company.


*wonders how far all this flattery will get him*

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