[uf-new] Re: markup advice for the citation microformat (Michael McCracken)

Tue Apr 24 09:45:34 PDT 2007

On Apr 24, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Mary Hodder wrote:
> Is there something we could do here to make this more inviting to 
> people elsewhere? This makes sense to me:
>>>> <dd class="date">Publish date: <abbr class="date-published"
>>> title="YYYYMMDD">
>> as neutral
>> but this:
>>>> MM/DD/YYYY</abbr> ...</dd>
>> reverts to the american date standard.

The MM/DD/YYYY there is not really part of the standard. The 
abbreviation design pattern [1] allows the human-readable formatting 
to change independent of the machine readable formatting (in the 
title attribute), allowing one publisher to publish May 2, 2007 and 
another to publish 2 May 2007, and machines understand they're the 
same date (title="2007年05月02日"). Maybe we just need to diversify the 
examples in the wiki to make this more clear?
[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/abbr-design-pattern
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