- An approach to semantic markup which uses HTML elements supported for other purposes to convey additional metadata and other attributes in web pages and other contexts that support HTML, such as RSS. Microformats allow software to process information intended for end users (such as contact data, coordinates, events, and similar information) automatically. Although the content of web pages has been capable of some “automated processing” since the inception of the Web, such processing is difficult because the elements used to display information on the Web do not always describe what the information means. Microformats can bridge this gap by attaching semantics, and thereby obviate other, more complicated, methods of automated processing, such as natural language processing or screen scraping. ← Wikipedia ↑ microformats.org
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