In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On 26 Jan 2008, at 19:07, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> That sounds like a situation where you would use the putative >>"citation" microformat which will hopefully include an "author" or >>"creator" property, utilising hCard. >> >I'm thinking, at the moment, of avoiding hCard completely in the >letters themselves, Why? It adds good, semantic mark-up. >basically to avoid all the horrible issues of ambiguity and >irregularity of names. For example, where Flinders signs this letter >'Matt'w Flinders' What's ambiguous about: <abbr class="given-name" title="Matthew">Matt'w</abbr> ? You should be using ABBR in such cases, even if you're not using microformats. >I'll just mark that link up using rel="tag", where the tag URL points >to the biography currently at >http://www.nmm.ac.uk/flinders/ListPeople.cfm?ID=41 >then use hCard to mark up Flinders as a person on that page. I think >what I'm saying is have one hCard per person on the site, which is the >biography page, then link to those hCards as tags within the letters. >That seems a lot easier than faffing around with citations and >different types of hCard. It may be easier, but is it better? -- Andy Mabbett _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss