On 3/28/06, Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/28/06, Michael McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you mean what is different about my example, nothing. I just wanted > > to ask about the problems raised in the 'orignal hBib discussion' - > > where data ordering might be needed to be reworked for display, and my > > question was basically whether that was actually a problem for the > > design of the microformat. > > OIC. Yes, I saw that discussion earlier, and I think that particular > goal (of being able to use CSS to style the citations, including > handling reordering) is completely unrealistic. CSS cannot possibly > handle the complexity of citation (re)styling. So this comment from > that document I think is off: > > === > There are hundreds of journal-specific formats for presenting > bibliographic data. If CSS cannot transform structured biblographic > information into at least 80% of the presentation format, the > Microformats way fails. > === > > If we accept that premise, then we might as well give up now.
I agree. > For my own use, I see XHTML + MF as only a rich output format, where > the source is more robust formats like DocBook and RDF (and hopefully > in the future OpenDocument). But that static output can itself be > useful. > > A citation microformat would be an excellent choice to use as the > > content of RSS items, however ... > > There's already some pretty good solutions out there (CiteUlike and > IngentaConnect come to mind) that use RSS 1.0 (.e.g RDF) for this sort > of thing. I can't possibly imagine that a MF would offer any advantage > over them, and would offer significant liabilities. What about the advantage that a MF is viewable in a browser? I can ask people to add a little structure to their markup much easier than I can ask them to support entire new alternate formats. Could you explain more about the liabilities of using a MF in RSS that you refer to? thanks, -mike -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss