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Microformat

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:48 am

Designed for “humans first, machines second”, microformat is an open source data format standard that is built upon existing frameworks (such as XML, HTML, Atom, or RSS). A microformat may be used in HTML pages through the use of microformat tags, which allow crawlers to find microformat information on the Web. Microformats are being actively used for blogs and other Web publishing.