In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Suda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On 1/1/07, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The 'wiki' page on xFolk: >> >> <http://microformats.org/wiki/xFolk> >> >> says: >> >> "If you need to define tags as part of a more specialised >> format, rel="tag" is the recommended way to do so, and xFolk, >> hReview, hCard and hCalendar all do this." >> >> Yet there is no mention of this, that I can find, on any of the >> hCalendar pages. >> >> Is its application to hCalendar documented, somewhere? Indeed, is it >> true, or is it just wishful thinking? > >--- the hCard wiki pages are more complete than the hCalendar ones. >Most of the hCalendar documentation has not been completed yet, so you >should not assume it is finished yet. And yet hCalendar is listed as a full spec on the main page, not a draft? > The categories in hCalendar work >in a very similar fashion to the hCard, using rel="tag" along with >class="categories". Thank you. Are they free form, or is their a set list to choose from? >The presents of a rel="tag" attribute and value help parsers to >determine WHERE to extract the data from. (if this is a topic of >interest/confusion please email the dev-list) It is, but I'm not a parser developer - so am I allowed to do so? >> Similarly, the only reference to it on the hCard pages, seems to be: >> >> <http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Tags_as_Categories> >> >> with no mention in the examples or on the cheat-sheet. > >Which cheat-sheet are you talking about? the wiki, the PDF at >ilovejackdaniels.com or the one at suda.co.uk? We now have several to >choose from and keep uptodate and in sync. I was referring to the cheat-sheet on the 'wiki' which I thought was in sync with your PDF - I see now that that is not the case. >If you are referring to the one at suda.co.uk, then which microformat >are you referring too? the hCalendar example DOES have a >class="category" and a rel="tag", but the hCald only has >class="category". According to the wiki, the rel="tag" portion "can >optionally be represented by tags with rel-tag", so the cheat sheet is >not incorrect, but at the moment only represents ONE way of encoding >categories. What other ways are there? >I am open to suggestions on how to possibly represent the whole rel >attribute as optional, Do the current indicators not allow for that? Otherwise, would a footnote suffice? >but again, the cheat sheet is not an "end-all >be-all" for representing microformats. It is a cheat sheet not a spec. Indeed. Where is the definitive, canonical and unambiguous hCalendar spec? -- Andy Mabbett * Say "NO!" to compulsory ID Cards: <http://www.no2id.net/> * Free Our Data: <http://www.freeourdata.org.uk> * Are you using Microformats, yet: <http://microformats.org/> ? _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss