class="hack"? Re: [uf-discuss] Comments from IBM/Lotus rep about Microformats

Fri Dec 8 14:54:11 PST 2006

Hi Bruce,
> My point, Ernie, is there's no obvious way to map it onto a model. I

Um, maybe I'm not quite understanding what you mean by "model". Are 
you saying that there's no way to create a generic parser that 
transforms the microformatted data into a normalized form?
What you may not realize (I didn't at first either) is that 
microformats.org is -- by *definition* -- optimizing for a world 
there are only a "handful" of discrete microformats. Thus, there is 
no point in worrying about the general case; there are only special 
cases, and a relatively small number of those.
You may not believe or agree with that definition (not all of us do 
either :-), but that's the rules we play by here. If you want a more 
generic approach, you might be happier with GRDDL.
Cheers,
-- Ernie P.
On Dec 8, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> On 12/8/06, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <drernie at opendarwin.org> wrote:
>>> On Dec 8, 2006, at 4:04 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>> > Likewise, using class to indicate both properties and, um, 
>> class, is
>> > also a hack.
>>>> I think that's probably where we part company. I suspect most of us
>> here consider the use of HTML "class" for semantic information fully
>> in line with the both the letter and spirit of the spec, and thus an
>> entirely natural usage.
>> My point, Ernie, is there's no obvious way to map it onto a model. I
> don't think that's such a controversial thing to say. We've got tables
> and columns (RDBMSes), resources and properties (RDF), objects and
> attributes (oo). Class and ... ?
>> Bruce
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