examples

Best Practices for Example Pages

Example pages are the first stage of the exploration process which must precede proposing a new microformat. Current explorations are listed on the Main Page.

Purpose of Example Pages

(adapted from process)

Document current human behavior. Remember, we're paving the cowpaths- before you do that you have to find the cowpaths. Your documentation should be a collection of real world sites and pages which are publishing the kind of data you wish to structure with a microformat. From those pages and sites, you should extract markup examples and the schemas implied therein, and provide analysis.

Recommended sections

Top level (=):

• Introductory sentence

Second level (==):

• Purpose (The Problem)
• Participants
• Real-World Examples
• Existing Practices
• Proposal (when available)
• See Also

Good Examples of Examples

The following pages are some of the best examples of instantiating this design pattern:

• reviews-formats
• blog-post-formats
• blog-description-format