[Standards-JIG] JEP-0071: class and rel attributes

[Ian Paterson]

> I've realized that it would be cool for XHTML-IM [2]
> to be able to embed microformats

Please can you explain why.

AFAICT, Microformats don't seem to fit with XHTML-IM's purpose. i.e. 
"lightweight text markup" and "minimal structural elements and 
presentational styles that can easily be rendered". IIRC this list agreed 
that XHTML-IM is targeted towards styling typical short IM messages.

Many XHTML rendering agents will try to interpret the 'class' attribute as a 
CSS style (even if the XHTML spec technically allows other uses for 
'class').

Wasn't there some discussion of the possibility of a second XHTML JEP for 
larger (email-like) messages? Perhaps that is the best home for 
Microformats?

- Ian