[uf-discuss] That pesky abbrevation tag (yet again)

Paul Wilkins pmw57 at xtra.co.nz
Sat Jan 5 19:39:51 PST 2008


> Is it feasible to change the hCard parsing rules so that the content
> of title is used, if present, for class="type", no matter which
> element the class is present on?

It was decided to not go that way. Authors commonly have other title
attributes in microformat sections that are not supposed to be
interpreted as machine data. Authors would have to retrofit their
existing code and remove existing titles from all affected microformat
sections.

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Paul Wilkins


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