hCard Profile
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The following is an XMDP profile for the hCard specification.
URLs
This profile is hosted as a separate XMDP file on microformats.org:
Usage
Profiles are referenced in (X)HTML files in the <head>
tag, e.g.:
<head profile='http://microformats.org/profile/hcard'>
Profile
<dl class="profile">
<dt>class</dt>
<dd><p>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-class">
HTML4 definition of the 'class' attribute.</a>
This meta data profile defines some 'class' attribute values (class names)
and their meanings as suggested by a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-htmllink-970328#profile">
draft of "Hypertext Links in HTML"</a>.
All values are defined according to the semantics defined in the
<a rel="contents start" href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard">
hCard specification</a>
and thus in
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt">RFC 2426</a>.</p>
<dl>
<dt id="vcard">vcard</dt>
<dd>A container for the rest of the class names defined in this XMDP profile.
See section 1. of RFC 2426.
</dd>
<dt id="fn">fn</dt>
<dd>See section 3.1.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="n">n</dt>
<dd>See section 3.1.2 of RFC 2426. May be inferred per
Implied "N" Optimization.</dd>
<dt id="family-name">family-name</dt>
<dd>See "Family Name" in section 3.1.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="given-name">given-name</dt>
<dd>See "Given Name" in section 3.1.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="additional-name">additional-name</dt>
<dd>See "Additional Names" in section 3.1.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="honorific-prefix">honorific-prefix</dt>
<dd>See "Honorific Prefixes" in section 3.1.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="honorific-suffix">honorific-suffix</dt>
<dd>See "Honorific Suffixes" in section 3.1.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="nickname">nickname</dt>
<dd>See section 3.1.3 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="photo">photo</dt>
<dd>See section 3.1.4 of RFC 2426. Typically used with an <img> tag.
Use the 'src' attribute for URI values. Use the 'data:' URI scheme for
binary values.</dd>
<dt id="bday">bday</dt>
<dd>See section 3.1.5 of RFC 2426. Typically used with an <abbr> tag
with the 'title' attribute for the date value, and a human readable date
inside the element.</dd>
<dt id="adr">adr</dt>
<dd>See section 3.2.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="post-office-box">post-office-box</dt>
<dd>See "post office box" in section 3.2.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="extended-address">extended-address</dt>
<dd>See "extended address" in section 3.2.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="street-address">street-address</dt>
<dd>See "street address" in section 3.2.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="locality">locality</dt>
<dd>See "locality" in section 3.2.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="region">region</dt>
<dd>See "region" in section 3.2.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="postal-code">postal-code</dt>
<dd>See "postal code" in section 3.2.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="country-name">country-name</dt>
<dd>See "country name" in section 3.2.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="type">type</dt>
<dd>See "type" in the various sections of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="label">label</dt>
<dd>See section 3.2.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="tel">tel</dt>
<dd>See section 3.3.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="email">email</dt>
<dd>See section 3.3.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="mailer">mailer</dt>
<dd>See section 3.3.3 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="tz">tz</dt>
<dd>See section 3.4.1 of RFC 2426. Typically used with an <abbr> tag
with the 'title' attribute for the tz value, and a human readable time zone
inside the element.</dd>
<dt id="geo">geo</dt>
<dd>See section 3.4.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="latitude">latitude</dt>
<dd>See "latitude" in section 3.4.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="longitude">longitude</dt>
<dd>See "longitude" in section 3.4.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="title">title</dt>
<dd>See section 3.5.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="role">role</dt>
<dd>See section 3.5.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="logo">logo</dt>
<dd>See section 3.5.3 of RFC 2426. Typically used with an <img> tag.
Use the 'src' attribute for URI values. Use the 'data:' URI scheme for
binary values.</dd>
<dt id="agent">agent</dt>
<dd>See section 3.5.4 of RFC 2426. If the value is a vCard, then
use a nest hCard. For simplicity in that case, the same element that
has the class name of "agent" should use the class name of "vcard".</dd>
<dt id="org">org</dt>
<dd>See section 3.5.5 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="organization-name">organization-name</dt>
<dd>See "Organization Name" in section 3.5.5 of RFC 2426.
May be inferred per Implied "organization-name" Optimization.</dd>
<dt id="organization-unit">organization-unit</dt>
<dd>See "Organization Unit" in section 3.5.5 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="category">category</dt>
<dd>See section 3.6.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="note">note</dt>
<dd>See section 3.6.2 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="rev">rev</dt>
<dd>See section 3.6.4 of RFC 2426. Typically used with an <abbr> tag
with the 'title' attribute for the date value, and a human readable date
inside the element.</dd>
<dt id="sort-string">sort-string</dt>
<dd>See section 3.6.5 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="sound">sound</dt>
<dd>See section 3.6.6 of RFC 2426. Typically used with either an <a>
or <object> tag. Use the 'data:' URI scheme for binary values.</dd>
<dt id="uid">uid</dt>
<dd>See section 3.6.7 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="url">url</dt>
<dd>See section 3.6.8 of RFC 2426. Typically used with an <a> tag.
</dd>
<dt id="class">class</dt>
<dd>See section 3.7.1 of RFC 2426.</dd>
<dt id="key">key</dt>
<dd>See section 3.7.2 of RFC 2426. Typically used with an <abbr> tag
with the 'title' attribute for the key value, and a human readable key
equivalent inside the element.</dd>
<dt id="value">value</dt>
<dd>This class name is used to distinguish the <em>actual</em> value
of a property from any other cruft that may be in
the containing element representing the property.
See the
<a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/value-class-pattern">
value-class-pattern</a> for details.</dd>
<dt id="value-title">value-title</dt>
<dd>This class name is used to distinguish the <em>actual</em> value
of a property, specifically in the 'title' attribute of the element,
from the element contents and the element representing
the containing property.
See the
<a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/value-class-pattern#Parsing_value_from_a_title_attribute">
value-class-pattern value-title description</a> for details.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
</dl>
Deprecated
2005-09-16:
The following class names have been deprecated in favor of singular names and the use of the "type" sub-property rather than class names for all of its values. hCard publishers MUST NOT use them as a class name.
- plurals:
- additional-names, honorific-prefixes, honorific-suffixes, categories
- type values:
- dom, intl, postal, parcel, home, work, pref, msg, voice, fax, cell, video, pager, bbs, modem, car, isdn, pcs, internet, x400
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