[uf-discuss] hCard: url and tel

[Andy Mabbett]

In message <C3A801EF.9A3ED%tantek at cs.stanford.edu>, Tantek Çelik
<tantek at cs.stanford.edu> writes

> Mostly microformats just markup existing data in the page so that
>machines can find it and know what type of data it is.

The name:

        Rebecca Jayne Smith

can be marked up - correctly and validly - as either:

    <foo class="fn">
        <foo class="given-name">Rebecca</foo>
        <foo class="additional-name">Jayne</foo>
        <foo class="family-name">Smith</foo>
    </foo>

or:

    <foo class="fn">
        <foo class="additional-name">Rebecca</foo>
        <foo class="given-name">Jayne</foo>
        <foo class="family-name">Smith</foo>
    </foo>

The "given" and "additional" names are not indicated on the page; not
even by context.


>Hence why microformats focus on real world examples on the web that are
>also *common*.

And people *commonly* publish what are clearly and unambiguously (to
humans, but not, without the additional mark-up of a microformat, to
machines) home or work telephone numbers, without saying as much on the
page.

When did you last see a listing of, say, Pizza restaurants that labelled
each telephone number as "work"?

When did you last see a listing of, say, Pizza restaurants that included
the managers' home numbers?

-- 
Andy Mabbett