Microformat 19
In-context examples
For annotated examples of microformats on live pages, see HCard#Live example and Geo
(microformat)#Three_classes.Specific microformats
Several microformats have been developed to enable semantic markup of particular types of information.
- hAtom – for marking up Atom feeds from within standard HTML
- hCalendar – for events
- hCard – for contact information; includes:
- adr – for postal addresses
- geo – for geographical coordinates (latitude, longitude)
- hMedia - for audio/video content [7][8]
- hNews - for news content
- hProduct – for products
- hRecipe - for recipes and foodstuffs.
- hResume – for resumes or CVs
- hReview – for reviews
- rel-directory – for distributed directory creation and inclusion[9]
- rel-enclosure – for multimedia attachments to web pages[10]
- rel-license – specification of copyright license[11]
- rel-nofollow, an attempt to discourage third-party content spam (e.g. spam in blogs)
- rel-tag – for decentralized tagging (Folksonomy)[12]
- xFolk – for tagged links
- XHTML Friends Network (XFN) – for social relationships
- XOXO – for lists and outlines
Microformats under development
Among the many proposed microformats,[13] the following are undergoing active development:
- hAudio – for audio files and references to released recordings
- citation – for citing references
- currency – for amounts of money
- figure – for associating captions with images[14]
- geo extensions – for places on Mars, the Moon, and other such bodies; for altitude; and for collections of
waypoints marking routes or boundaries - species – for the names of living things (already used by Wikipedia [15] and the BBC Wildlife Finder)
- measure – for physical quantities, structured data-values[16]