I can see this hcard, but would think it would be a contact mech form
remember addresses are permanent, people move.

Adrian Crum sent the following on 11/6/2008 10:12 AM:
> It would be nice to have the HTML markup include the hCard microformat:
> http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard.
> 
> -Adrian
> 
> Joe Eckard wrote:
>> I would like to help improve postal address input and formatting in
>> OFBiz to provide better support for international customers and
>> shipments.
>>
>> The general idea is that a specified country would change how the
>> postal address input form is arranged and labeled, and how the postal
>> address is formatted for display. This would have a side effect of
>> consolidating the input and display formatting into central locations.
>>
>> No data model changes are required, though a case could be made for
>> adding a field "address3" to the postal address entity.
>>
>> To start, this could be as simple as having two generic templates:
>>
>>     Address 1
>>     Address 2
>>     Address 3*
>>     City, State, Postal Code
>>
>>     or
>>
>>     Address 1
>>     Address 2
>>     Address 3*
>>     Postal Code, City, State
>>
>>     (this is how UPS handles formatting for their Smart Labels, except
>> they display Address 321 instead of 123)
>>
>> and then adding more country-specific templates as desired.
>>
>> Is there any additional interest in this? Any comments or suggestions?
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>>
>> links:
>>
>>     http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-203 - discussion
>> related to a proposed freemarker implementation from 2006
>>
>>    
>> http://www.upu.int/post_code/en/postal_addressing_systems_member_countries.shtml
>> - address formats
>>
>>     http://xml.coverpages.org/Lubenow-UPUS42.html - UPU S42 Standard
>> on International Postal Address Components and Templates
>>         (fairly interesting, but not freely available and appears to
>> only have XML templates for 15 countries)
> 
> 

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