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<h1>So you want to implement microformats?</h1>

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Microformats are designed to be similar to current markup styles. This means that it is quite possible that you won't have to do much work to produce microformats on your site.

For example:

* Do you publish events information on your site? Then mark those events up with [[hcalendar|hCalendar]].
* Do you have people, or organisation,s and their contact information? Then mark those up with [[hcard|hCard]].
* Do you publish waypoints, or other coordinates? Mark them up with [[geo|Geo]].
* Do you have an explicit copyright license on your content? Then mark up the link to your license with [[rel-license|rel=license]].
* Do you have social networking data? Then mark that up with [http://gmpg.org/xfn XFN]. Are you using tagging? Then use [[rel-tag|rel=tag]] or [[xfolk|xFolk]].
* Are you publishing lists? Then use [[xoxo|XOXO]].
* Do you publish reviews? Then use [[hreview|hReview]].
* Do you publish feeds? Then use [[hatom|hAtom]].

You see many common kinds of content can be marked up in microformats and chances are you already have some of them on your site. Start with the obvious ones.

Here are a few more tips:

* Try to produce clean, semantic [[(X)HTML]]. Often this will get you very close to microformats on its own.
* Read some background material:
** [[POSH]]
** [[semantic XHTML]]
** [http://tantek.com/presentations/20040928sdforumws/semantic-xhtml.html Semantic (X)HTML]
** [http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/elementsofxhtml Meaningful (X)HTML]
** [http://www.tantek.com/presentations/2004etech/realworldsemanticspres.html Real World Semantics]

Microformats Wiki - User contributions [en]

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