>I presume the "ease of implementation" is referring to a *parser* >grabbing the data from another resource. As far as marking up a >document, I don't see how the "vast majority of use cases" should >dictate this and it is certainly trivial to provide a >relative/absolute URL in the href (e.g. >href="http://www.csarven.ca#hcard") of the document.
I think there is a case for something like this where there is optional extra data not required to make sense of the document itself but as a link to another document with more information about an item. Eg: a hCalender listing of upcoming festivals could provide a link inside each vevent to another hCalendar page listing when each act is playing at that festival (this could then be separate to the main "url" link for the item which might be the website for that festival). I do think however such external data should only be for optional stuff that the user might choose to look when they want to know more detail about an item and is probably best handled by some kind of simple link with a semantic classname describing what it is for rather than include-pattern (wouldn't that be forcing the user to look at that extra detail and wait for it to load even if they are not interested in it?) Perhaps there should also be a way to describe if an something on one page could be considered to be part of (like "child of") something else on another so that tools can relate them - eg tell that a vevent item about a specific session at a conference is actually part of a conference described in another item elsewhere else. Perhaps all that would be needed is a way to mark up those links to describe such relationships and also a way to mark up when something external is a more detailed version of the same item. (eg a hcard with just fn and org might have a link to another hcard for the same person somewhere else with full contact details) _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss