hCard

Seeing as this group looks pretty latent, and I can't see anyone's mentioned it yet,
vcard.module is available to be patched to D5, and
I extended it to addhcard support to user profiles even if you don't use the actual vcard functions.
Just putting it out there, hopefully revive a little interest. I think microformats should be the default in drupal themes wherever possible.

Microformats are a format based on the common XHTML. There are a few popular Microformats recommendation (I refuse to call it a standard) specifications, most notable are hCard, XFN, hCalendar and XOXO.

XFN

what is XFN

Hey fellow Microformatters,

I've been working on a small side-element to Microformats in Drupal and it will be ready to commit to the CVS at some point tommorow.

I have created microid.module, which creates a MicroID hash in the user profile.

At the moment, it's a little hard coded. First off all, there is the function that creates the hash:

Now, what I do with this is I get $user->email to generate the email part of the hash, thats fine. But for the profile side, I have specified that there must be a field called profile_homepage. The reason for this is that the URL you want to create the hash with should be your homepage, thats how you will be identified.

A module called nodeauthor has recently been brought to my attention and is another module that could do with Microformat support.

From this screenshot you can see it add's a "About Author" at the bottom on a post regarding the node's author.

If you look at This comment on my site, it might look like nothing - but check with Tails, and you find a hidden spam hCard.

It's very easy to produce one and embed it in to a post or comment, which will then be indexed by sites such as Technorati.

So what can we do to stop this type of spam before it starts?

Disucss.

Infact, its' been posted here too:

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p class="vcard" style="display:none">

Test

Spam

Post

I asked myself how we could use Microformats in the location module.

this is the patch which came out: Using Microformat for address output

comments and suggestions are welcome :)

I've been thinking about how to do hCards. I built a small example version which I commited to the CVS. It builds up the XHTML using JavaScript and works well as an example, but is very bulky and I can see it becoming very limited.

I'm thinking a better option may be to use the existing Profiles module to build hCards. With Profiles, you can create custom profile fields, and my idea is to build a custom hCard module that takes these fields and allows you to map them to defined hCard fields (i.e. profile-firstname = given-name, profile-company = org, etc) which this module then outputs in the correct format.

Recently I've really got excited about Microformats and how they can be used to create content that can be aggregated around the internet.

Drupal really needs to support microformats, and I am currently planning and working on a module set that allows this. But I would like your input!

If you read the description of microformats, you can see they are set pieces of information based on existing formats such as vCard and iCal, but written in semantic XHTML, which can then be styled using CSS class selectors. You then have the choice to render them to the page, for example with an event. Or you can embed them in your site, such as linking to someone you have cited on your blog by using the rel tag i.e. XFN.