[uf-discuss] hAtom and Optimus

[Mark Wunsch]

First time poster here. I am anxious to contribute what I can.
Recently created my personal blog marked up in hAtom. When I tried to
validate in Optimus:
http://microformatique.com/optimus/?format=validate&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmarkwunsch.com

I see an error that required property author not specified, but I
thought I marked it up correctly as hCard:

<h1 id="pagetitle" class="vcard author"><a
href="http://markwunsch.com/" title="Return to main page" class="fn
url">Mark Wunsch</a></h1>

This is my first implementation of hAtom, wanted to make sure I got it
correct. Is Optimus a good tool for general validation of
microformats?

Thanks,

Mark