blog-info-brainstorming

2008-12-16T14:33:38Z

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<h1> Blog Info Brainstorming </h1>

This page documents thoughts toward establishing a new microformat to use when discussing, linking to, referring to blogs beyond just linking to them using a person or organization's name.

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== Contributors ==

* [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek Ãelik]
* [http://factoryjoe.com/blog Chris Messina]
* [http://epeus.blogspot.com Kevin Marks]

== Simple Schema ==

From the [[blog-info-examples]] and the existing [[blog-info-formats]], it seems clear that a simple schema must have:

* name of the blog
* link to the blog
* zero or more links to feeds for the blog
** type of that feed
* name of person associated with the blog (e.g. author / contributor)

== Class Names ==

* root class name for an item - (hBlog? hInfo? hItem?).
* "fn" for name of blog
* simple href link to the blog
* "alternate"? typed href alternate links
* "author" for stating who is blogging that blog. [[hcard|hCard]] is quite useful / flexible.

== XHTML Structure ==

'''Definition List'''

When used in conjunction with XOXO, this could be a very useful way of outputting lists of favorites.

<pre>
<ul>
<li class="hblog">
<dl>
<dt class="fn url"><a href="[link]">[Title]</a></dt>
<dd class="author">[author hCard]</dd>
<dd class="description">[Description]</dd>
<dd class="alternate url"><a href="[feedlink]" class="feed">[Title]</a></dd>
<dd class="alternate url"><a href="[homepagelink]" class="homepage">[Title]</a></dd>
</dl>
</li>
<li class="hblog">[etc]</li>
</ul>
</pre>

That isn't XOXO at all. XOXO has key value pairs with visible keys in

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