In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > >> Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >>> It would be helpful to look at some real-world markup so we can come >>> up with practical ways to address this concern. >> >> I've just posted real markup on the Wiki > >I should have been more clear. I'd like to see real-world markup via >email where this discussion is currently taking place, so we can >analyze the markup and come up with practical advice to offer in the >FAQ. OK: (reformatted for clarity) <tr class="X"> <th scope="row">Friday 3<br> 7:30–9:30pm </th> <td> <abbr class="wmbc" title="West Midland Bird Club">WMBC</abbr> <a href="../solihull/indoor.htm" title="Solihull Branch indoor meetings" > Solihull Branch indoor meeting </a>. </td> <td>Solihull College, New Lecture Rooms, Blossomfield Road, Solihull B91 1SB (SP142790). </td> <td>Steve Smith: The Farne Islands and the Bass Rock. </td> </tr> vs: <tr id="D20061103a" class="vevent X"> <th scope="row">Friday 3<br> <abbr class="dtstart" title="2006-11-03T19:30:00+00:00"> 7:30 </abbr> – <abbr class="dtend" title="2006-11-03T21:30:00+00:00"> 9:30 </abbr> pm </th> <td class="summary"> <abbr class="wmbc" title="West Midland Bird Club">WMBC </abbr> <a class="url" href="../solihull/indoor.htm" title="Solihull Branch indoor meetings"> Solihull Branch indoor meeting </a> . </td> <td class="location vCard"> <span class="fn org">Solihull College</span>, <span class="adr"> <span class="extended-address">New Lecture Rooms</span>, <span class="street-address">Blossomfield Road</span>, <span class="locality">Solihull</span> <span class="postal-code">B91 1SB</span> </span> ( <abbr class="geo" title="52.4095; -1.7921"> SP142790 </abbr> ). </td> <td class="description"> Steve Smith: The Farne Islands and the Bass Rock. </td> </tr> That's 399 characters increased to 860 (excluding indentation); over double. > The FAQ exists to help people solve problems, not to confirm that >their problems are indeed problems. There was me, thinking that it existed to answer their questions, honestly. Who says the extra markup is a problem? I didn't. > I think Mike's done a good job of exploring solutions to the problem >of verbose markup, but so far we're lacking real-world markup in this >(email) discussion. No longer. > If we can provide some real-world markup examples here, and apply >some of the ideas Mike introduced, I think that would move the >discussion forward toward something that would be appropriate to add >to the FAQ in the wiki. I'll look forward to seeing somebody reinstate my example, then. -- Andy Mabbett Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss