[uf-discuss] Author in hAtom

Fri Feb 27 02:58:46 PST 2009

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Jeremy Keith <jeremy at adactio.com> wrote:
> Ted wrote:
>>>> Yup, it's perfectly valid.
>> André wrote:
>>>> My gut also told me this was valid. I even implemented hatom this way
>> in my blog.
>> Good stuff.
>>> After I read this thread, I went to check and lo and behold...
>> Operator transforms the author part of hatom into this:
>>>> object author {
>>        0=posted by André Luís
>> }
>> Yes, this is one of the things that prompted my question. I noticed that on
> Huffduffer, Operator was extracted "author" as the whole string:
>> object author {
>        0=—Huffduffed by adactio 11 hours ago
> }
>>> So I guess Operator is lacking this "cleverness". It apparently
>> doesn't treat the author vcard as vcard, but as a property of hentry.
>> Right ...which is technically what the spec says but I guess the spirit of
> the spec would be to extract hCard *properties* (n/fn, url, email, etc. — as
> Optimus does) rather than extracting everything between the opening and
> closing "vcard" containing elements.
>> Perhaps I should an example to the hAtom examples page to show this usage of
> the author property.

Is this not though, just a general property of microformats in
general? I.e. that the semantic information is being encoded at the
property level and bundled at the the h* level.
Regards, etc...
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David Janes
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