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Formats & Support

Structured Blogging supports microformats that are XML or xHTML based and can easily be converted between one and another. The goal is to start getting developers to build compelling end-user benefits and not keep discussing the subtle differences between the various technical solutions.

For example: a movie review that was created by one end-user on a mobile phone and stored on their blog should be compatible with a search engine based suggestion engine or a public movie review server.

Use existing microformats where possible

It’s useful to think of Structured Blogging as an implementation of microformats.

So if you are going to create a new Structured Blogging microcontent type – we recommend you use an existing microformat if possible. For example, the Structured Blogging toolset outputs reviews in the hReview format.

Microformats Plugins & Support

The plugins we offer enable the publishing of structured XHTML content, with microformats-compatible page tags and easily-parsed blocks of XML. They are also designed to transport microcontent in all types of XML feeds – e.g. RSS 2.0, Atom and RSS 1.0.

The plugins also enable automatic conversion into RDF and (in future) OPML.

Other tool plugins and support - including Xanga, LiveJournal and Drupal - are planned. We will also develop code libraries for PHP, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby and .Net.

Microcontent Types

Currently the following types are supported:

  • Reviews
  • Events
  • Lists
  • Media (audio, video, images)
  • People and group showcases

Supported subscription formats

  • RSS 2.0
  • Atom
  • RSS 1.0
  • Media RSS
  • iTunes RSS

Supported Page Tag Formats

Microformats

Supported File Formats

RDF

Supported Platforms
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