Comments on: Dossy’s hCard, if you care about microformats http://dossy.org/2006/06/dossys-hcard-if-you-care-about-microformats/ Everything that comes out of Dossy, from the strange to the banal. Wed, 16 May 2012 14:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Havard http://dossy.org/2006/06/dossys-hcard-if-you-care-about-microformats/comment-page-1/#comment-416 John Havard Sat, 03 Jun 2006 03:49:42 +0000 http://dossy.org/archives/000288.html#comment-416 Now this is what the Semantic Web is really all about. Rather than <strong><em>LOL LETS CREATE A NEW XML SCHEMA ROFLOL ke ke ke ke ke AND XSLT AND STUFF LOL</em></strong> it uses the predominant document format on the web (html) and gives meaning to various combinations of tags and standardized classes. This is something I've done as long as I've known about CSS, which was back in 1999. Granted, I didn't formalize anything, but it was blatantly obvious. If I wrote the CMS or blog engine and I designed the layout, the class and id tags gave meaning to the document sections. I'd be a much happier man if browsers implemened <tt>:even</tt> and <tt>:odd</tt>. <strong>XML religous disclaimer:</strong> Don't get me wrong, using an internal xml format and xslt can be useful (e.g. you need to transform from your internal format to xhtml, html 4.1, html 3, and wml). But there's probably saner and more efficient solutions. The worst simple string matching template systems are usually more performant than the fastest formal XSLT engine, and don't even think about using proper document validation. Like everything, it has its proper place. Now this is what the Semantic Web is really all about. Rather than LOL LETS CREATE A NEW XML SCHEMA ROFLOL ke ke ke ke ke AND XSLT AND STUFF LOL it uses the predominant document format on the web (html) and gives meaning to various combinations of tags and standardized classes.

This is something I’ve done as long as I’ve known about CSS, which was back in 1999. Granted, I didn’t formalize anything, but it was blatantly obvious. If I wrote the CMS or blog engine and I designed the layout, the class and id tags gave meaning to the document sections. I’d be a much happier man if browsers implemened :even and :o dd.

XML religous disclaimer: Don’t get me wrong, using an internal xml format and xslt can be useful (e.g. you need to transform from your internal format to xhtml, html 4.1, html 3, and wml). But there’s probably saner and more efficient solutions. The worst simple string matching template systems are usually more performant than the fastest formal XSLT engine, and don’t even think about using proper document validation. Like everything, it has its proper place.

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