OpenSearch

On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Ted Drake wrote:

> This is a sample product result from the search result
page. Where  
> would the
> OpenSearch/hAtom microformats be added?

For the results section, you'd just be adding hAtom to the
results,  
which someone more involved with hAtom would probably
explain better  
than I.  But to make an HTML version of OpenSearch, you'd
also need  
to identify that those hAtom entries are search results part
of a  
larger set.  A quick one-to-one mapping of OpenSearch to
HTML looks  
something like this:

<p>Results <span
class="start-index">21</span> to 30 of
<span  
class="total-results">4230000</span>,
<span class="per-page">10</ 
span> per page.</p>
<input type="text"
class="search-terms" value="New York
History />

That's taken from the example here:

http:
//opensearch.a9.com/spec/1.1/response/#rss

That's a slightly different format of information that can
be  
inferred, but is not explicitly published on Yahoo! Tech. 
For  
example, I can see there are ten results per page, but
that's not  
stated anywhere.  And I can assume that page one starts at
an index  
of 1, and page 2 at an index of 11, but that's also not
published  
currently.  The total results and search terms are already
published,  
so they would just need class names to match the OpenSearch 

properties.  And the difference between Yahoo's HTML and
the  
OpenSearch properties (e.g. page vs. index, stated per-page
vs.  
unstated) would need to be worked out through collecting
more  
examples and seeing which is more representative of the
implied  
schema for search results across the web.

Peace,
Scott

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