#hacknorrisso how it is with xml and microformats?
#[Joe_Crawford]so the question is, if there is an xml file that serves `text/xml` and yet has `class` attributes in its content, can that qualify as microformats, and do the parsers in usage pick them up? is that the q hacknorris?
#[Joe_Crawford]I'm not thinking of anything that precludes using xml for markup which contains microformats. There is this page on the microformats site: http://microformats.org/wiki/plain-xml
#[Joe_Crawford]Mostly writing handrolled html content over the years, I find the rigor of xml appealing. - because I can check my work with a validator and know it precisely validates with no fudging or warnings.
#[tantek]maybe I'll have to make an April Fools proposal to add RSS (or Atom) elements to the HTML standard
#[Joe_Crawford]But I get fun out of validating against exotic DTDs. HTML 2.0 for example. https://tilde.club/~artlung/
#[Joe_Crawford]hacknorris++ back to what you're trying -- fully hope you get your microformats-in-xml working enough to try webmentioning and getting webmentions!
#hacknorrisgetting maybe not cuz raw XML prohibits scripts as it was meant for DBs
#hacknorrisbut being listed on webmentions.io possibly…
#[Joe_Crawford]It's all about where the parsers expect the elements to be. And you can do a lot in XML. CDATA sections means you can stuff in what you like. XML namespaces mean you can inherit tags from other dialects. But for sure go as simple as you can to start.
#[tantek]exactly, Webmention does not require scripting/scripts of any sort