question-answer-brainstorming
Questions and Answers
Purpose
The "question-answer" microformat proposes to formalize the relationships between questions and answers (including "FAQs") published within a single HTML document (and possibly a set of documents). Such formalization should allow for reuse of questions and answers in new contexts, e.g. search engines, IM bots, etc.
Multi-page FAQs
Based on [1] (extraneous detail omitted)
Current mark-up:
- <a href="/england/noappointmentneeded/walkincentres/walkincentreservices.cmsx">What services does a Walk-in Centre offer?</a>
Possible solution (tentative class-names):
- <a class="question answer-at" href="/england/noappointmentneeded/walkincentres/walkincentreservices.cmsx">What services does a Walk-in Centre offer?</a>
More about this possible solution:
(FAQ-LIST)
- <ul class="faq-list">
- <li><a class="question answer-at" href="faq1.htm">What are the microformats?</a></li>
- <li><a class="question answer-at" href="faq2.htm">Who can use the microformats? </a></li>
- <li><a class="question answer-at" href="faq3.htm">How can we use the microformats? </a></li>
- </ul>
(FAQ-PAGE)
- <div class="faq">
- <h1 class="question">What are the microformats?</h1>
- <p class="answer">Microformats are an implementation...</p>
- </div>
(FAQ-NAVIGATION-MENU)
- <ul class="faq-navigation">
- <li><a href="faq1.htm" class="faq-previous question answer-at">What are the microformats?</a> (Previous in faq-list)</li>
- <li><a href="faq3.htm" class="faq-next question answer-at">How can we use the microformats?</a> (Next in faq-list)</li>
- </ul>
hFeed
FAQs could be marked up as, or using a variant of, hAtom, with the question being the entry title and the answer the content. Andy Mabbett
hfeed (hAtom) is a good candidate, however, one thing is lacking...the key concept of a q/a. The value of a q/a format is for agregating questions and answers. If hAtom can indicate that it's contents are q/a it would be perfect. Taylor Cowan