hReview in Microformats 2

by Lee Nau
in Projects

tagged Pelican, Blogging

I’m working on a few themes for this blogging engine, both for this blog and 50 Words. I haven’t migrated that one yet, because I’m trying to get a handle on how to solve the issue of preserving (or upgrading) the formatted reviews over there.

Since I found h-review in microformats2, I wanted to post my new h-review format, as much for my own reference as for anyone else’s.

Using the same example from last time:

<div class="h-review">
    <p>Published
        <time class="dt-reviewed"
           datetime="2010-03-01 03:03:00">Mar 01, 2010</time>
        by <a class="p-reviewer h-card"
              href="/people/mr-nau/">Mr. Nau</a>
    </p>
    <p class="e-description">
        Rosamund and Benjamin Zander collaborate in this
        insightful self-improvement book that outlines
        overcoming obstacles and increasing motivation
        with simple, effective tips.  Whether the reader
        is trying to improve their productivity at work
        or struggling to create a masterpiece artistic
        work, many of the principles here will inspire
        consistent action.
    </p>
    <p>
        <strong>Grade</strong>:
        <data class="p-rating" value="5">A</data>.
    </p>
    <div class="h-product">
        <p><strong>Amazon</strong>: 
            <a class="h-item"
               href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0142001104/">
                  Rosamund Stone Zander &amp; Benjamin Zander — 
                  <em>The Art of Possibility: Transforming
                      Personal and Professional Life</em></a>
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

So, in Markdown, that'd become:

Title: Rosamund & Benjamin Zander - The Art of Possibility (2002)
Author: Mr. Nau
Date: 2010-03-01 03:02
Category: Reviews
Tags: Books
Type: h-review
p-rating: 5
p-rating-content: A
h-item-url: http://www.amazon.com/dp/01420001104/
h-item-content: Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander - The Art\  
    of Possibility: Transforming Personal and Professional Life

Rosamund and Benjamin Zander collaborate in this insightful
self-improvement book that outlines overcoming obstacles
and increasing motivation with simple, effective tips.  Whether
the reader is trying to improve their productivity at work or
struggling to create a masterpiece artistic work, many of the
principles here will inspire consistent action.

That doesn’t look so bad. It looks more semantic and takes advantage of a couple of features of HTML5. The nice thing is that if the Markdown format I’ve posted above works, I should be able to migrate most of my posts (all 1028 of them) in a relatively short period of time.

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