I think this is a great idea. In the context of my straw proposal, I imagine this working in a way similar to the "item" property of hReview - we require that there be something labeled as the item the citation refers to - at its simplest, it can be the title, but it could also be an entire other microformat, such as work-of-art.
This also seems to solve one problem I had with my proposal about how to cite personal communication - you could have the 'item' be a vCard for that person. <cite class="citation"><span class="work-of-art item">...</span><span class="fn">Some artwork title</span></cite> -mike On 3/29/06, Breton Slivka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My suggestion: Modularize. Create a "Core" citation format, which is > stripped down to the bone, containing only the common elements in all > of those formats. Then add domain specific modules for the special > cases, which only the domain experts need to worry about. > > With this, I think you've eliminated part of the problem in adoption > of a large and ungainly format with hundreds of properties. User > agents need only deal with the core citation format. domain specific > software can be created and utilized as necessary. > > > > On Mar 29, 2006, at 5:10 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > > > > To me a test of an 80/20 format is can a user/developer reliably and > > consistently encode the following: > > > > 1. articles (not just journal articles, but also for other > > periodicals) > > 2. speeches and other presentatiions (like a conference paper) > > > > The trick is to avoid genre-specific property names like "jtitle" or > > "conference-title" and exploit the nested possibilities of HTML and > > the fact that one can include more than one class attribute. > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > -- 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
