glossary

2007-05-31T07:02:49Z

HenrikW: /* Microformats Glossary */

=Microformats Glossary=

If you have a term you wish to see defined, please feel free to add it to the list, in alphabetical order (apart from the first entry).

;microformat 
:See http://microformats.org/about/.

;@
:in the context of, say, ''@rel'', this is shorthand for ''attribute'', so "''the @rel''" should be read as "''the rel attribute''"

;anti design pattern
:???

;attribute
:??? (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element HTML element on Wikipedia])

;autodiscovery
:see discovery

;class
:???

;compound microformat
:See [[compound-microformat]]

;deprecated
:In the process of being phased out (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecated Deprecation on Wikiepedia])

;design pattern
:???

;discovery
:???

;DRY
;'''''D'''on't '''R'''epeat '''Y'''ourslef''
: See [[dry|DRY]]

;element
:??? (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element HTML element on Wikipedia])

;elemental microformat
:See [[elemental-microformat]]

;grandfather(ed)
:Something which is an exception to a rule (or pattern, behaviour, etc.), because it existed before that rule was formulated.

;HTML
:'''''H'''yper'''T'''ext '''M'''ark-up '''L'''anguage''
:see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML HTML on Wkiipedia] and XHTML, below

;hCard
:h???card

;mark-up
:n. the (X)HTML codes and related classes which, when wrapped around data, turn it into a web page.

;mark up
:v. to apply mark-up.

;mfbot
:[[mfbot]] is an IRC bot which logs all edits to this wiki.

;microformat 
:See http://microformats.org/about/.

;microformateer
: A person involved with microformats.

;namespace
:???

;parse
:(verb) To extract data from a format using explicit parsing rules for one or more formats, such as microformats (see also "scrape").
:See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing 'parsing' on Wikipedia]

;picoformat
:A syntax for communicating and executing commands with mobile devices over SMS. See [[picoformats]]

;POSH
:'''''P'''lain '''O'''ld '''S'''emantic (X)'''H'''TML''

;process
:The ''recommended'' procedure for proposing a new microformat. See [[process]]

;profile
:???

;property
:???

;rel
:a property which signifies the '''''rel'''ationship'' of one page to another, linked, page.

;rev
:as ''rel'', but applying in the '''''rev'''erse'' direction. Generally deprecated for microformats.

;scrape
:(verb) To extract apparent data from a file/stream (plain text, HTML, RSS, XML, whatever) using regular expressions or other made-up rules that are not explicitly defined by the data formats (if any) that you are extracting. (see also "parse")

;semantic
:(adjective) having meaning.

;tag
:???

;tag space
:???

;uF
:Shorthand for ''microformat'', especially used in e-mail and on IRC. Plural: '''uFs'''.

;URI
:'''''U'''niform'' '''''R'''esource'' '''''I'''dentifier'': a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier URIs on Wikipedia]

;URL
:'''''U'''niform'' '''''R'''esource'' '''''L'''ocator''
:#in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)—many popular and technical texts will use the term "URL" when referring to URI;
:#in strict technical usage, it is a subset of URI specific to identifiers who are primarily locators.
:See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url URLs on Wikipedia]

;value
:??? (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element HTML element on Wikipedia])

;(X)HTML
:A generic term, meaning "''HTML or XHTML''".

;XHTML
:'''''HTML''''' reformulated in '''''X'''ML''.
:See see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/xhtml XHTML on Wkiipedia] or http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ for more information.

;XMDP
:''('''X''')HTML '''M'''eta '''D'''ata '''P'''rofile ''
:See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMDP XMDP on Wikipedia]

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