Scott Reynen wrote: > Another seemingly small issue: this solution > binds us to machine-readable data formats that have no spaces. If you take a look at the Wiki section for this proposal, you'll see details of my experimental implementation of this pattern. It allows publishers to percent-encode characters such as spaces, which can't occur in class names. For example: <span class="country-name data-United%20Kingdom">UK</span> (Though of course, in the example above, the <abbr> design pattern is perfectly accessible.) http://microformats.org/wiki/datetime-design-pattern#Machine- data_in_class -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>