[whatwg] foreign attributes Re: several messages about XML syntax and HTML5

[Elias Torres]

ryan king wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Elias Torres wrote:
> 
>> There's plenty of documentation/code/test cases for *specific*
>> microformats but no general rules for let's say additional fields in an
>> hCard. Let me know if I'm missing any other documentation or overall
>> principle in microformats.
> 
> You're not missing anything. There is no documentation for "additional
> fields in an hCard". There is no extensibility mechanism for individual
> microformats because it's not necessary. If you want to create a  new
> vocabulary to use along with hCard, just start using it in your markup.
> If it becomes popular enough, you might be able to get it added to hCard
> (if it ever in the future diverges from a 1:1 mapping from vCard).

I guess that's the crux of the matter here. You believe that "it's not
necessary" to extend microformats. I believe we do. Ian gives me the
impression that all you need is class/rel/profile to have a fully
extensible and capable HTML and it might be the case with extra text
processing within class values. But I'd rather have a small new set of
attributes specific for this purpose. BTW, we will still use class, rel
and profile, just need about, property and content/datatype.

As IBM we are not expecting our formats to become "popular", we just
want our customers/products to use validated HTML for their
applications. We shouldn't need to ask microformats to include our
product attributes in their specs everytime we think of a new feature.

-Elias

> 
> -ryan
> 
>> ryan king wrote:
>>> On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Elias Torres wrote:
>>>> If you can read in the uF wiki [1] there's really not much guidance on
>>>> how to parse
>>>> one or all of them.
>>>
>>> There is more documentation than you suggest. See [1], which documents
>>> how to parse hcards. Much of the hCard parsing guideline apply more
>>> generally (extracting those common bits is on my todo list).
>>>
>>> Also, please note that we have a suite of test cases. The stable and
>>> agreed upon ones are here [2] and you can see work in progress in our
>>> mercurial repository [3].
>>>
>>> -ryan
>>>
>>> 1. http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing
>>> 2. http://microformats.org/tests/
>>> 3. http://hg.microformats.org/tests/
>>>
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