Microformats
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Microformats contribute to the principles of a semantic web in a very useful way. With microformats any structured or unstructured information on web pages can be given a meaning. Name and address information anywhere on the page can be tagged as belonging to personal contact information. Words like “Walter Soldierer” are meaningless to a program, but they can be turned into something the program can deal with by tagging them with microformats. The following code makes the words semantically belong to a “formatted name” (fn):
<span class=”fn”>Walter Soldierer</span>
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