From: Nicholas Wieland <nicholas.wieland@...>
Date: 2008-12-30T11:03:37+09:00
Subject: Re: What you do when dealing with a huge number of conditions ?

Damn, don't know what happened ... Is it because the mail is signed by  
thawte ?

This was my post

Hi *,
  I need to deal with microformats, I would like to write a lib that  
covers the most common.
As the microformat idea is useful and well thought, as the  
implementation can become a truckload of crap, a microformat changes  
when different data is submitted, and can have countless variations.
For hcard I found a rails plugin, and as I thought it's basically a  
set of if/else conditions dealing with different combinations. You can  
take a peek here:http://rubyurl.com/ARJR
To add mess to the mess, it's not just a matter of data  
representation, data is "interlocked", for example there's a rule to  
optimize the fn element (the name representation, not implemented on  
microformats_helper): if given-name is == to the organization name,  
probably it's a nickname, so it should be represented with <whatever  
class="fn nickname"> ngw </whatever>.
I would like to have some suggestion how to make it without writing  
too much spaghetti (even if I'm italian :p).

Thoughts ?
  ngw