Unlike XML or the semantic Web, microformats use ubiquitous technologies like HTML and XHTML, existing developer skills, and tools web today, and, perhaps most importantly, they work in all current web browsers. This book also features case studies detailing how major web content publishers such as yahoo put microformats to work in their web applications. In this book you will learn how to take best advantage of the built-in semantics of XHTML and HTML How to extend the semantics of HTML using microformats and open up a world of new possibilities with web applications every aspect of all the common microformats currently in use How microformats help your websites and applications easily integrate with web applications like Google Maps, as well as desktop applications like iCal, outlook, and entourage What innovative publishers and services, large and small, do it now with microformats Summary of Contents PART ONE: INTRODUCING microformats Chapter 1: What are Microformats? Chapter 2: State of Art in Microformats PART TWO: USING microformats Chapter 3: Structure and Semantic HTML Chapter 4: Link-Based Microformats: rel-license, rel-tag rel-nofollow, and VoteLinks Chapter 5: microformat to Describe Relationships Between People: XFN Chapter 6: Location Microformats: geo and adr Chapter 7: Contact Information microformat: hCard Chapter 8: Event microformat: hCalendar Chapter 9: The Review and Resume Microformats: hReview and Chapter 10 hResume: microformat Syndicated Content: hAtom. PART THREE: CASE STUDIES Chapter 11: Case Study: Cork'd Chapter 12: Case Study: Yahoo PART FOUR: DEVELOPING microformats Chapter 13: Development Process microformats PART FIVE: Appendix Appendix A: Specifications microformat Reference Appendix B: Appendix C Design Patterns microformat : People, Tools, Services, and Publishers