I don't think this should be done in some generic datatype, it looks like you should just alter your xslt a little to accommodate for the microformat mark-up.
However, you should also consider the worth of having microformat support as opposed to the polution of your mark-up, have a look at Jeff Attwoods rant about this. I tend to agree with him and also with his reasons for supporting microformats after all.
Google is obviously also why I want to implement these tags. But I do understand everything he says. Hmmm... I might put this off a bit. I have way too much on my hands anyhow ;-)
It LOOKS simple as Jeff says ;-) And that is also what I was thinking. But he apparently wasn't able to make it work without almost loosing his mind ;-)
You can always start small and just tag you company home address. It is still something they are "just trying out" at Google.
But I think I might go with the RDF format instead of the Microformats markup that Jeff looked at. There is no clash with CSS classes.
New Datatype - Rich Snippet
Hi guys,
I just read about Rich Snippets on the Google Webmaster Central Blog.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-new-rich-snippets-format.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/amDG+(Official+Google+Webmaster+Central+Blog)
It would be pretty cool to create a datatype to hold this. I am just not sure how one would tackle this.
Any thoughts? I am just looking at this for fun right now, so it is at the absolute bottom of my priority list.
/RasB
I don't think this should be done in some generic datatype, it looks like you should just alter your xslt a little to accommodate for the microformat mark-up.
However, you should also consider the worth of having microformat support as opposed to the polution of your mark-up, have a look at Jeff Attwoods rant about this. I tend to agree with him and also with his reasons for supporting microformats after all.
Hi Sebastian,
Google is obviously also why I want to implement these tags. But I do understand everything he says. Hmmm... I might put this off a bit. I have way too much on my hands anyhow ;-)
/RasB
It does look dead-simple though, just add a bit of mark-up and maybe your Google results will look a lot cooler! :)
It LOOKS simple as Jeff says ;-) And that is also what I was thinking. But he apparently wasn't able to make it work without almost loosing his mind ;-)
You can always start small and just tag you company home address. It is still something they are "just trying out" at Google.
But I think I might go with the RDF format instead of the Microformats markup that Jeff looked at. There is no clash with CSS classes.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=146898
/RasB
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