For some time now I’ve been using rel-license; today I added
hAtom and hCard. hCard was easy; I decided to just drop the
url and fn attributes into a link around my name. hAtom, however, was a bit
more difficult.
Things started out well thanks to
Emily Lewis’ helpful guide, but
Optimus microformat validator kept insisting that I was missing the
author attribute. The guide addresses this, noting the spec
allows for indicating the author separately with an hCard — something I had
already set up. This is where problems began.
My first attempt was to change from (reduced code):
<p class='vcard'><a class='url fn'></a></p>
to (again reduced):
<p class='vcard'><address class='author'><a class='url fn'></a></address></p>
This did not turn out well, but turning it inside-out fixed the
problem. I don’t know why.
Regardless, I now have what seems like theoretically correct markup — excepting
that I haven’t really done the entry dates according to spec, due to
uncertainty over the accessibility issues — but the validator maintains that
I’m missing the author attribute.
At this point I’m not sure if my code is actually invalid or if it’s just an
error in the validator. Regardless, it should be complete enough to work.
