Hello, forgive me if this question comes across as naïve or uninformed as I am new to the list, but I have tried to soak in as much information as quickly as possible via the wiki and mailing list, but haven't found an answer to something I've been thinking about.
I was considering writing a simple Javascript that would iterate elements in a page and somehow highlight any and all microformats in use on a page. The trouble is there appears to be no common identifier for microformats that would indicate that a snippet of XHTML is a microformat. I'd have to know the format for all possible microformats ahead of time, which of course is impossible since the creation of a microformat is distributed, correct? I can see such a script as being useful as a Bookmarklet to show a user which elements of a page are microformats. My first question, is there some common identifier that I'm just missing? Second, is there a philosophical or practical reason not to have some identifier? One reason I can think of is that it may be slightly unwieldy. <div class="vcard">...</div> Might become <div class="microformat vcard">...</div> Or <div class="mf vcard">...</div> Perhaps an auto-discovery mechanism or "table of contents" Microformat might be helpful in this case? I'm still trying to catch up on where the auto-discovery discussion is currently situated. I wrote a post on some thoughts here (relevant part starts 3rd para down http://haacked.com/archive/2006/03/21/Mix06MicroformatsAutodiscovery.aspx) in the hopes that someone would enlighten me a bit ;) Thanks for your time! Phil _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
