#microformats 2014-06-11

2014-06-11 UTC
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aaronpk I'm curious where the decision to have every mf2 property be an array came from
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aaronpk as in when parsing any properties, there can always be multiple values
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barnabywalters aaronpk: what’s the other option?
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aaronpk i dunno, there are a number of other ways it could work
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aaronpk like, if there's only one value then it is returned as a value rather than array
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aaronpk or maybe the spec for different data type dictates some properties must be single-value
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aaronpk or maybe pluralized property names become arrays :P
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barnabywalters aaronpk: eh, all overcomplications for the parsing level
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aaronpk like I said, I'm curious where the decision came from :)
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barnabywalters those sort of optimisations typically rely on vocab knowledge
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barnabywalters which mf2 parsers explicitly don’t have
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barnabywalters aaronpk: there might be something on http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing-issues or http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2-parsing-brainstorming
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aaronpk i'm considering porting php-mf2 to ruby
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barnabywalters aaronpk: is G5 really that confusing?
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aaronpk it's not that it's confusing, it's just hard-coded much of the vocab
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aaronpk so you don't get back the JSON the same way you do with the PHP one
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aaronpk https://github.com/G5/microformats2#usage
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barnabywalters ew, weird
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aaronpk i mean it's not like it has an h-card class
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barnabywalters looks like it has what could be a really great optimisation layer, if it was separated from the parsing stage
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aaronpk but there's definitely some magic going on with "card.names" and "card.name" both accessing the "p-name" property
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tantek aaronpk - a lot of that is answered in the latter sections in /microformats2
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tantek let me see if I can dig up the FAQs
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barnabywalters aaronpk: doesn’t G5’s Collection.to_hash method give you canonical mf2 JSON? https://github.com/G5/microformats2/blob/master/lib/microformats2/collection.rb#L43
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aaronpk hmm will have to check...
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barnabywalters it looks like it should
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aaronpk oh hey! it does
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aaronpk thank goodness
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tantek doesn't find that particular FAQ, sets out to write one.
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barnabywalters aaronpk: currently sending a pull request to the readme
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aaronpk nice thanks
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barnabywalters aaronpk: https://github.com/G5/microformats2/pull/30/files
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aaronpk that was fast!
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barnabywalters merged! that was quick
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aaronpk if I get used to the fancy accessors in the G5 gem I might have to go make the same interface for the PHP one
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barnabywalters aaronpk: do it! the more tools there are for optimising use of the canonical structures the better
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