[wp-hackers] Structured Blogging?

[Computer Guru]

On 9/8/07, Stephane Daury <wordpress at tekartist.org> wrote:
>
> Looking at both projects, I can already see the nightmare this will
> create with the teeming WP theme ecosystem.
>
>  From what I see, WP does use microformat in some places (rel for
> category widgets and such), but since each theme has its own take on
> the xhtml presentation layer, these plugins have rough seas ahead of
> them to satisfy their user base.
>
> I use microformats where/whenever I can (hcard, hatom, geotag, etc),
> but at the post and page level in WP, I have found no better way than
> to stick to the theme and template level for now (coupled with custom
> fields too).

There's a reason why machine-readable and human-readable content have
been kept separate all these years.... I still haven't found a
convincing reason to not just use <link> tags instead..