Microformats are a new way to embed structured data within standard XHTML code. Discover how to read and write the new microformats for the Web. Every once in a long while, I read about an idea that is a stroke of brilliance, and I think to myself, “I wish I had thought of that, it’s genius!” Microformats are just that kind of idea. You see, for a while now, people have tried to extract structured data from the unstructured Web. You hear glimmers of these when people talk about the “semantic Web,” a Web in which data is separated from formatting. But for whatever reason, the semantic Web hasn’t taken off, and the problem of finding structured data in an unstructured world remains.

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