Alex Iskold, who I’ll quote in full from the µFormats list:
I am fairly new to microformats. My initial reaction was why not describe the page data in XML first, then use XML to describe the presentation and then use XSLT to produce the actual HTML page.
I then realized that this approach does not solve a problem. In fact it misses the point of microformats, which is to embed the meta-data with the data, to make the data ’self-describing’ and to eliminate the need for additional query and parsing.
Using RDF does not bring anything new to the solution, in fact there maybe a lot of solutions to the format problem. For that reason the format that we choose should be as short as possible, so that we do not make the documents super verbose.
