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tmkeesey
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PostPosted: Wed 11 Oct, 2006 9:19 pm    Post subject: PhyloCode Microformat Reply with quote
The idea of microformats was recently brought to my attention: microformats.org. Basically, it's a way of marking text in HTML/XHTML as being of a certain data type. For example, a div or span tag with attribute class="postal-code" signifies a postal code in the hCard microformat. In this way, XML-parsing tools can glean useful information from HTML web pages without disrupting the look of the HTML page.

It was suggested that a microformat be constructed for the PhyloCode. I thought I'd start some discussion here. What types of data could be marked using a microformat?

The most obvious one would be taxa. For example, classes like clade and species:
Code:
<span class="clade">Dinosauria</span> includes <span class="species">Tyrannosaurus rex</span>.


The species class could be optionally expanded, too:
Code:
<span class="clade">Dinosauria</span> includes  <span class="species"><span class="praenomen">Tyrannosaurus</span> <span class="epithet">rex</span></span>.


In CSS, of course, the classes could be automatically set to render out as italicized:
Code:
.clade, .species {
    font-style: italic;
}


Then the aforementioned code would render as:
Quote:
Dinosauria includes Tyrannosaurus rex.


Microformat tags could also be created for citations, definitions, traditional taxa, etc.
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PostPosted: Sat 11 Nov, 2006 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice, I like it.
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PostPosted: Thu 13 Sep, 2007 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
For the latest version of the PhyloCode website, I added some semantic information in the id and class names of various elements.

Some have to do with the structure of the code itself. For example, the <div> tag containing Article 2.1 looks like:
Code:
div id="art2.1" class="article">...</div>


Others have to do with taxa as mentioned above. Many <span> tags have one or more of the following classes: clade-name, prenomen, ranked-name, species-name.

The citations have also been extensively marked with semantic information. A few other bits of information, like dates, glossary terms, etc. are also marked.
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