microformats

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.

Here's the low-down on the upcoming.org integration module:

Per the developers description: The upcoming.org module enables you to import events and venues from upcoming.org and display them in a calendar using the event module. Upcoming.org is a website that helps you share and keep track of your events. Synchronizing (using upcoming.org as the master repository) is also supported. Additionally, this module exposes the upcoming.org REST API, making clients written to use it interoperable with Drupal. This makes it possible to build a whole network of websites sharing their events, all using a defined API.

Update: Bumping this rather old post up and over to the Drupal Dojo in hope that it can spur some 'can drupal do this' learning and workshopping.

In the context of a music-arts community site, I'm looking to provide an easy way for registered users to create some of the following types of content:

Hi there,

As you can read on my blog, I am building another solid base for a theme, WhatsinItsName. In the second blogpost I explain in more detail what that base will be about. For thowe who know microformats: this will be more if a huge microformat, making your HTML actually meaningfull!

For once, it is not about a CSS frame, but about a very solid, standardised HTML with standard, predicatble (and actually usable :) classes and IDs. It should be a frame where you can drop a huge range of CSS on top of, and see a nice theme emerge. Think about the source HTML of CSS zengarden, only more aimed at Real World Sites :)