[microformats-discuss] Microformats, REST, and XML

Mon Sep 19 16:47:52 PDT 2005

Hi Kevin,
On Sep 19, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Kevin Marks wrote:
> On Sep 19, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>>> It's a nice idea, certainly. There is a dream of a word processor 
> whose native format is XHTML+ CSS:
>> http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/2004/07/ 
> my_kingdom_for_a_web_editing_tool.php

Anything come of that dream? Doesn't sound like much has changed in 
12 months....
>> What would this list recommend as the best practice (assuming 
>> plist = XOXO for purpose of discussion)?
>> One thing is that some properties and names you don't want exposed 
> to your users; the multiple inheritance trick you can do with 
> classnames that hCard etc exploit is not really possible with XOXO, 
> but XOXO gives you a good generic mapping in the absence of a 
> specialised microformat.

Ah, I think I'm starting to get it. It is similar to the Python 
problem of 'When do you use a dictionary, and when do you create a 
custom class'? The answer usually comes down to, "When there's 
specialized processing involved." In the microformats cases, is it a 
maxim that:
everything should be XOXO, unless it is a specialized microformat
?
-- Ernie P.