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HTML5 Microdata – Over-cooked?

What is Microdata?
Microdata is HTML5’s answer to how we should go about embedding machine-readable data in our mark-up.
At a high level, microdata consists of a group of name-value pairs. The groups are called items, and each name-value pair is a property. Items and properties are represented by regular elements.

A simple example looks something like this:

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Adding XFN

I recently readded XFN tags back into my links (read: blogroll), which are another Microformat open standard. As with most microformats it’s very simple, and some blogs will do it for you by default. What it basically means is you add rel=”relationship” to the link of the person to give the link some [...]