Thanks for considering my input. As for "money" vs. "currency" for some intangible reason I prefer currency, maybe because currency datatype always seemed more natural than money data type in programming, but I don't prefer it strongly enough to argue the point! :)
P.S. I added my vote to your poll, but only selected three of eight thinking the rest shouldn't be included. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lebleu Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:28 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Currency Quickpoll: Preliminary results Mike Schinkel wrote: >This is a naïve question: Doesn't the ISO 4217 code *imply* a symbol? >It appears so here: http://www.xe.com/symbols.htm Doesn't including >this in the microformat create redundancy? > >Alternately, can't the symbols be extracted as not being alphanumeric >characters? > I tend to agree with you and see this as a bit redundant, but I felt I would reproduce the suggestion for the sake of not ignoring anyone's in the vote. > >I wouldn't have guessed that meaning; I thought your were talking worldwide, >not document scope. :) So how would you mark up >http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_spt_s1_d.htm ? Can you show the >actual HTML to help me better understand? (not for the entire file, just a >snippet.) > One solution is to use the include-pattern only; another solution is to use the th scope only (if the currency is present in the column header), or a combination of the two: amounts in <span id="#u1" class="currency">USD</span>. ... <tr> <th scope="col">price<a href="#u1" class="include"></a></th> <td>24</td> </tr> >If so, wouldn't that argue for "combination with >units (ex. $34 per gallon, $2 per miles)" being out of scope and begging the >need for a microformat that allows unit designation, i.e. hUnits? > > We came to the same conclusion. A separate measure effort was started: http://microformats.org/wiki/measure >Anyway, I made a proposal here: >http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Mike_Schinkel with the >idea of trying to minimize the burden placed on the author of the HTML, and >only use lots of markup in the exceptional cases. > > > You have some good points there. That said, I think that currency should not be the root class, money should be, since semantically (to me) $35 is not a currency, it is money, and currency is part of money. But I see the benefits of briefness. >My last thought on the subject, is why are we using full names for currency >and amount instead of "cur" and "amt" to minimize bloat when hCard uses >names like "fn?" > > Good point too. I will try to document the different options presented over the last days. It does not seem that we will get a 100% on all feature implementations, so I guess it will be up for the community to decide through a vote, or limit the feature scope to what is 100% agreed, namely currency disambiguation. Thank you, Guillaume > > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss