[uf-discuss] Conformance criteria for hCard and hCalendar

Mon Jun 5 00:53:58 PDT 2006

(Originally sent to the WHAT WG list. I was advised to resend here.)
How is one supposed to extract conformance requirements from the 
hCard and hCalendar specs? The section that defines the format in 
both specs is rather short. Is it an obvious bijective mapping 
between hCalendar/iCalendar and hCard/vCard for those who are 
familiar with the iCalendar and vCard formats? (It isn't obvious to 
me.) The existence of
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-parsing
suggests that the specs themselves are not sufficient descriptions of 
the formats and their processing.
Are there even any conformance requirements for these formats? (The 
specs seem to encourage view source instead of pointing to 
conformance criteria.)
I am developing a conformance checker for HTML5, and HTML5 may end up 
making a normative reference to hCalendar and hCard.
-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen at iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/