Re: An Inconvenient hCard

In message <45F5A81A.1010306xtra.co.nz>, Paul
Wilkins 
<pmw57xtra.co.nz> writes

>>> <p class="tel"><abbr
class="type"
title="fax">Téléc</abbr>: <span 
>>>class="value">(514)
123-4568</span></p>

>> This is a misuse of abbr at best.
>>
>> See: open issue! 2007-01-26
>> http://micr
oformats.org/wiki/hcard-issues

>I also see that you are the author of that open issue,
and that it's 
>been rejected.

Rejected with a request for further information, and
subsequently 
re-opened.

>The abbr design pattern is the currently accepted
microformat method in 
>which to provide machine readable information for human
readable 
>content,
>as it's defined in the TEL Type Definition at 
>http://www.microformats.org/wiki/hc
ard-examples#3.3.1_TEL_Type_Definitio>n

>While the abbr element isn't being used strictly as it
was originally 
>intended, there are sufficient grounds to continue using
it for the 
>purpose of microformats.

Can you cite evidence that it's "currently
accepted" for non-English 
content, as in the above example; or clarify those
"sufficient grounds" 
for its use in such cases, please?

-- 
Andy Mabbett
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.pigsonthewing.org.uk/uFsig/>

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