Section E.4. More Microformats

E.4. More Microformats

The microformats.org site has a comprehensive listing of well-established microformats that are broadly adopted, as well as nascent microformat efforts that are being designed. Table E-1 provides a summary of several types of content and the microformats that have been developed to represent them.

Table E-1. Examples of microformats

Microformat	Content
hCard	People, organizations, contacts
adr, geo	Address and latitude/longitude location
hCalendar	Calendars and events
hReview	Reviews, ratings
XOXO	Lists and outlines
XFN	Social network relationships
rel-license	Licenses
rel-tag	Tags, topics, categories
xFolk	Tagged links
rel-directory	Directory inclusion
rel-enclosure	Enclosures to be downloaded
VoteLinks	Votes
rel-nofollow, Robots Exclusion	Robot exclusion/filtering
hAtom	Syndicated content
hResume	Resumes
XMDP	(X)HTML metadata profiles

More than the microformats themselves, the microformats.org site is the center of an open community of web designers and developers with very active irc channels, email lists, and wiki pages, and it is a great place to learn more about how to use microformats.