[microformats-discuss] Weblog entries and forum posts

Fri Aug 12 15:45:35 PDT 2005

Hi Ryan,
That's exactly what I thought would be the correct approach also. I've 
attached my (barebones) original proposal at the end of this message.
Regards, etc...
David
http://www.blogmatrix.com
Ryan King wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote:
>>> Hey David and Geof,
>>>> This same idea came up in #microformats the other day, with no less
>> than three people having independently invented it. Given that you
>> guys are two more, this is about as unambiguous as a zeitgeist can
>> get: it's a great idea.
>>> I would be one of those 'independent inventors'. :D
>> Basically, what I want is a microformat for blogs. I think there's 
> enough similarity among blog markup to warrant trying to develop a format.
>> And, I think this should be our next step...
>> Redo your own blog as an experiment- analyze typical blog formats and 
> try to apply whatever format seems most semantic.
>> For myself, as an experiment, I'm going to try and map atom 1.0 into my 
> blog markup.
>> -ryan

The format itself would be quite simple. I've just used Atom 
(http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/) as a reasonable 
definition for what should be in this microcontent spec, and worked from 
there. Here's the basic elements:
xentry
 id [... we've decided this is probably not ideal ...]
 author
 published
 title
 content
 Notes: "xentry" could become "aentry" to more suggest Atom, but I 
like the way this reminisent of xFolk 
(http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk). There's an example of the markup 
after my signature below.
Your thoughts? If people think this is a good idea, I can start fleshing 
this out more. There a little conflict or overlap with the reblg people, 
but I think that can be worked out.
Regards, etc...
David Janes
Founder, BlogMatrix
http://www.blogmatrix.com
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- Original weblog article:
 <div class="post">
 <h3 class="storytitle" id="post-2960">
 <a href="http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/08/03/httptracer/" 
rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: HTTPTracer">HTTPTracer</a>
 </h3>
 <div class="storycontent">
 <p>bla bla bla</p>
 </div>
 <div class="metabits">
 <div class="keywords">
 <a 
href="http://dannyayers.com/misc/about/biog.htm">Danny</a>@13:45 |
 <a href="http://dannyayers.com/..." title="View ..." 
rel="category tag">Programming</a>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="feedback">
 <a 
href="http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/08/03/httptracer/#comments">Comments 
(0)</a>
 </div>
 </div>
- With xEntry markup (I've made all the xEntry markup uppercase for 
_visibility purposes only_; note the optional use of <abbr> to provide 
deeper data):
 <div class="XENTRY post">
 <h3 class="storytitle" id="post-2960">
 <a href="http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/08/03/httptracer/" 
class="TITLE ID" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: 
HTTPTracer">HTTPTracer</a>
 </h3>
 <div class="CONTENT storycontent">
 <p>bla bla bla</p>
 </div>
 <div class="metabits">
 <div class="keywords">
 <a href="http://dannyayers.com/misc/about/biog.htm"><abbr 
class="AUTHOR" title="Danny Ayers">Danny</abbr></a>@<abbr 
class="PUBLISHED" title="2005年08月03日T11:45:02Z">13:45</abbr> |
 <a href="http://dannyayers.com/..." title="View ..." 
rel="category tag">Programming</a>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="feedback">
 <a 
href="http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/08/03/httptracer/#comments">Comments 
(0)</a>
 </div>
 </div>
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