[whatwg] Conformance criteria for hCard and hCalendar

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> How is one supposed to extract conformance requirements from the hCard 
> and hCalendar specs? The section that defines the format in both specs 
> is rather short. Is it an obvious bijective mapping between 
> hCalendar/iCalendar and hCard/vCard for those who are familiar with the 
> iCalendar and vCard formats? (It isn't obvious to me.) The existence of 
> http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing suggests that the specs 
> themselves are not sufficient descriptions of the formats and their 
> processing.
> 
> Are there even any conformance requirements for these formats? (The 
> specs seem to encourage view source instead of pointing to conformance 
> criteria.)

These questions would be better forwarded to the microformats.org mailing 
lists. The WHATWG spec won't make the <card> and <calendar> elements use 
hCard and hCalendar until/unless the relevant specs are much clearer about 
the points you raise.


> Also, an example in the Web Apps 1.0 spec suggests that the <card> 
> element does not replace the class='vcard' root of the card. It would be 
> nice to be explicit about this in the prose. (Why is the content model 
> then any block level elements instead of exactly one block level element 
> or zero or one block level elements?)

The <card> and <calendar> sections in the WA1 spec right now are nothing 
but placeholders (hence the "TBW" marker on the section headers).

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