[uf-new] hAudio: audio-title/album-title vs. recording/album

Andy Mabbett andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk
Sat Oct 13 09:30:28 PDT 2007


In message <1192284008.875.61.camel at localhost.localdomain>, Martin
McEvoy <martin at weborganics.co.uk> writes

> Many of us on the list agree with Tantek (including Me) that we SHOULD
>use FN, the trouble is Some on the list want to use *Track* and
>*audio-title* or *recording* because they believe the properties we are
>trying to describe SHOULD mean something specific, which I tend to
>disagree with, as the way I have proposed hAudio, *Item*  contained
>within hAudio is a *track*

"fn" is fine, so long as it's clear (from a higher-level attribute) what
is being named, as in this pseudocode:

        <li><track><fn>Speak to me</fn></track></li>
        <li><track><fn>Breathe</fn></track></li>
        <li><track><fn>On the Run</fn></track></li>
        <li><track><fn>Time</fn></track></li>

Whereas that may be OK, this:

        <li><fn>Speak to me</fn></li>
        <li><fn>Breathe</fn></li>
        <li><fn>On the Run</fn></li>
        <li><fn>Time</fn></li>

is not.

Would we use "fn", though, if hCard had been created before vCard?


>> I wonder though if we
>> could maybe use item instead of track somehow

><span class="haudio">
>     <span class="album">Best Before 1984</span>
>     <span class="contributor">Crass</span>
>     <span class="item"><span class="fn">Nagasaki Nightmare</
>span> – <abbr class="duration" title="P268T">4:46</abbr></span>
>     <span class="item"><span class="fn">Nagasaki Nightmare</
>span> – <abbr class="duration" title="P268T">4:46</abbr></span>
>     <span class="item"><span class="fn">Nagasaki Nightmare</
>span> – <abbr class="duration" title="P268T">4:46</abbr></span>
></span>

Item is semantically empty, other than as a container. We might as well
say "thing".

-- 
Andy Mabbett



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