XOXO Microformat

Roger Costello

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XOXO

• XOXO stands for eXtensible Open XHTML Outlines.
• It is very simple: add class="XOXO" to a list (ul, ol, dl), e.g.,

1. <ul class="XOXO">
2. <li></li>
3. <li></li>
4. <li></li>
5. </ul>

Value of XOXO

• Seems pretty trivial, right? So what's its value?
• "The point of XOXO is that you can trivially encode arrays and dictionaries in straight HTML. In particular, you can use it as an alternative to, e.g., JSON, for generic data structures: http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/datatypes. Somebody's even written a whole blog about such uses: http://blogxoxo.blogspot.com/." [Ernie Prabhakar]