Mofo

Microformats are small pieces of code that are added to HTML or XHTML in order to provide useful information about the content of a webpage. They are especially useful for bloggers who want to give readers access to recent posts without having to set up separate feeds. This is where the hAtom microformat comes into play. By adding semantic CSS classes to specific areas of a blog post, hAtom can be embedded into the existing HTML. These classes serve to identify the post's title, author, and other details.

One great thing about hAtom is that it can be easily parsed with a microformat parser such as Mofo. With a parser, users can extract the information from the post just as they would from an Atom feed. Even better, hAtom can be converted into an Atom feed directly. The user doesn't need to create any new code; they're just repurposing existing content.

Mofo is a tool that can be used as a plugin for Rails. By dropping it into the vendor/plugins directory, all of the various microformat parsers are loaded into the application. A major benefit of mofo is that its classes are compatible with YAML and Marshal caching. This means that the data can be easily stored in a session or cached with memcached or DRb.

Overall, microformats are a great resource for anyone who wants to make their content more accessible and user-friendly. Mofo is an especially useful tool for anyone using Rails, as it makes the process of embedding microformats much easier. Mofo is distributed under the MIT/X Consortium License.