Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0

PART FOUR DEVELOPINGMICROFORMATS

Throughout this book, you've learned about the major microformats, how they work, and what they enable. You've seen who is publishing microformats, who is building services around published microformat content, and the kinds of tools available to help make developing microformatted content and services easier. But you've haven't yet examined how they come into being, which is what you'll turn to in this part of the book.

13 THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPINGMICROFORMATS

Surprisingly, one of the most common questions I get when speaking about microformats (which for my sins I do quite a bit) is, "How can I develop a new microformat?" or at the very least "How are microformats developed?"

I've stated a number of times ...