Do Not Restrict H-Feed to Only Contain H-Entry

[dshanske]

microformats/h-entry#16

This should actually be an h-feed issue, not an h-entry issue.

[dshanske]

Thoughts...

• An h-feed of h-cards could be a contact, follow venue list?
• An h-feed of h-events could be an upcoming or past events list

[btrem]

I'm thinking about an opening-hours microformat. Jacky (last name?) suggested a feed of h-events. I think a new h-feed property called p-feed-type or p-children-type or something like would be useful. Authors could create a feed of h-events or h-cards as @dshanske suggested. And new event type h-opening-hours could be a special type of event. When an h-feed is a collection of h-opening-hours, it's the operating hours of a business.

[barnabywalters]

Thinking about this from a user’s perspective: an h-feed represents something which could meaningfully be subscribed to, and/or presented in a feed reader. By default this includes anything with name, content and published properties. The presence of an author, either at the feed or child level is also usually implied. Additionally, I can imagine a few other useful cases which fit into the same concept.

• an h-feed containing h-entries makes sense as a feed of posts you could subscribe to in a feed reader
• an h-feed containing h-events makes sense as a feed of events you could subscribe to in a calendar
• an h-feed of h-cards could potentially represent a chronologically ordered list of people. In this case, I’m not so convinced that an h-feed makes more sense than just having a bunch of h-cards on a page, except that wrapping them in an h-feed allows you to name it and assign an author to it. I had a few ideas about how to use things like this in the past, e.g. as a modern blogroll.

[capjamesg]

@barnabywalters I agree. I could see myself doing this for a feed of h-reviews and even h-recipes (for subscribing to the ways in which I brew coffee at home). A feed of h-cards could be used as an extended blog roll, potentially, or for similar use cases wherein one links to multiple other personal sites.

[capjamesg]

One could take this even further and create a h-feed for a trip using h-geo markup. I am only starting to support h-geo on my blog but I could see a use for a feed that shows, say, all of the h-geo checkins I have for a trip that I have taken.

[calebhearth]

I'm using h-feed to contain a heterogenous collection of h-entry and h-cite on https://calebhearth.com/now and my comments (web mentions) sections on various pages including https://calebhearth.com/this-gem-is-mentionable are h-feeds of h-cite.